MARTENS, DAVID [SSNE 425]

Surname

MARTENS, MARTIN

First name

DAVID

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

David Martin served as solicitor martial in the Danish-Norwegian army in Colonel Donald Mackay's [SSNE 93] regiment from 1 July 1627. He along with many of the regiment received his reckoning by 4/10/1628, and was subsequently "reformed" in 1629

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.119; J. Mackay, 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p. 188.

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1627-01-01

Departed 1628-10-04

Capacity SOLICITOR MARTIAL, purpose MILITARY