HAMILTON, ? [SSNE 1150]

Surname

HAMILTON

First name

?

Title/rank

COLONEL

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Colonel Hamilton is listed as one of the Scottish officers at Thorn city with Colonel Cranston's [SSNE 2101] regiment of Swedish service between 1655-8. These soldiers were fighting in the Swedish-Polish war

T. Fischer, The Scots in Eastern and Western Prussia (Edinburgh, 1903), pp.134-135.

Service record

SWEDEN, WILLIAM CRANSTON, THORN/TORUN

Arrived 1655-01-01, as COLONEL

Departed 1658-12-31, as COLONEL

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY