The Loyal Regiment continued to serve during the sunset of the British Empire. Battalions of the regiment served in the Palestine Mandate. The 1st Battalion served in the Malayan Emergency from 1957 to 1959. B Company was dispatched to Aden during the Emergency in 1966. A Company was also dispatched followed by C Company prior to the withdrawal of British troops that year. The Regiment was amalgamated with The Lancashire Regiment (Prince of Wales's Volunteers) to form The Queen's Lancashire Regiment at Connaught Barracks in Dover in March 1970.