HUME, ALEXANDER [SSNE 578]

Surname

HUME, HOME

First name

ALEXANDER

Title/rank

SERGEANT MAJOR

Nationality

SCOT

Text source

Alexander Hume served as sergeant major in Lord Spynie's [SSNE 177] regiment of the Danish-Norwegian army in 1628. He received his reckoning by 18 October that year.

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.141.

Two men of the name of Alexander Home served in the Army of the Solemn League and Covenant in 1644, and both were veterans of the Thirty Years' War. One served as major in Baclarres Horse and the other as lieutenant colonel in Welden's Horse. It is impossible to say which is which, but this man was probably one of the two, the other most likely [SSNE 563]. See A list of the Several Regiments and Chief Officers of the Scottish Army quartered neer Newcastle (London 1644); Ed. Furgol, A Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies, 1639-1641 (Edinburgh, 1990), 114.

English Civil War

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, LORD SPYNIES OWN

Arrived 1628-01-01, as SERGEANT MAJOR

Departed 1628-10-18, as SERJEANT MAJOR

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY