Allen Apsley (Royalist) but presumably Apsley's was at Newbury due to its good strength compared to the other regiments in the tercio. On 29 May 1645, Apsley's and the rest of Astley's tercio made up the right flank at the storming of Leicester, which fell the next day in a bloody massacre to the royalist cry of "Kill Dead!" It is presumed by this point that Apsley's horse had either gone back to Exeter with Allen or been amalgamated into one of the other horse regiments as no further records of them exist. By the Battle of Naseby on 14 June 1645, what
HMS Royalist (89) like HMS Albion and HMS Bulwark and it was decided "Royalist" would proceed to Pearl Harbor for a second workup, rather than a longer refit in the Devonport dockyard, before deploying to Hong Kong and Singapore in support of RN forces. "Royalist" conducted anti-infiltration patrols, boarding boats, deployed shore patrols, participated in Exercise Guardrail as the simulated "enemy Sverdlov cruiser" and provided extra men, potential heavy GFS and AD support for 's on a vulnerable deployment, transferring a new helicopter squadron to Borneo. For the 1965 Far East tour, the crew were awarded Operational Service Medals (OPSM). This reflects the