MENZIES, THOMAS [SSNE 4013]

Surname

MENZIES

First name

THOMAS

Title/rank

LT. COLONEL

Nationality

SCOT

Region

BALGOWNIE, ABERDEEN

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Thomas Menzies was the son of Alexander Menzies of Balgownie. He served in Sweden as a captain and in 1654 he came to Russia with John Trail and was promoted to lieutenant colonel. He was mortally wounded in battle with the Poles and died in Chudnov, Ukraine in 1660, although Henry Gordon [SSNE 6541] apparently rescued him during the battle along with colonel Daniel Crawford. He had two sons.

W. Barnhill and P. Dukes, 'North-east Scots in Muscovy in the seventeenth century' in Northern Scotland, vol. 1, no. 1, 1972, pp.49-63; D. Fedosov, The Caledonian Connection (Aberdeen, 1996); R. Frost, "Scottish soldiers, Poland-Lithuania and the Thirty Years' War" in S. Murdoch ed. Scotland and the Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648 (Brill, 2001), p.211.

Service record

SWEDEN, SWEDISH ARMY

Arrived 1653-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1653-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

RUSSIA, RUSSIAN ARMY

Arrived 1654-01-01, as CAPTAIN

Departed 1654-12-31, as LT. COLONEL

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY