HALIBURTON, FREDERICK [SSNE 287]

Surname
HALIBURTON, HALIBERTON, HALIBORTON
First name
FREDERICK, FRIEDERICK
Title/rank
SUBLIEUTENANT
Nationality
SCOT
Region
Social status
Education
Religion

Text source

Frederik Halliburton was a sergeant in a liferegiment company which in 1689 was sent to England to fight the Jacobites in Ireland, but the ship Samson was captured by the French pirate Jean Bart and thus he became a French prisoner of war in December 1689. He was mistreated when he refused to enter the French 'Danish' regiment and he was only exchanged in June 1691 in Rotterdam. He was in the queen's battalion in English pay in Flanders in 1696, and became ensign in 1697. The battalion returned to Denmark and he served as sublieutenant 1701-4.

J.C.W. Hirsch and K. Hirsch (eds.), 'Fortegnelse over Dansk og Norske officerer med flere fra 1648 til 1814 (12 vols. compiled 1888-1907), IV, vol.3; T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.89.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, QUEENS FOOT
Arrived 1689-01-01, as SERGEANT
Departed 1704-12-31, as SUBLIEUTENANT
Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY