REID, WILLIAM [SSNE 7182]

Surname

REID

First name

WILLIAM

Title/rank

CAPTAIN

Nationality

SCOT

Region

BRECHIN, ANGUS

Text source

Captain William Reid was a Scottish soldier who was buried in the church at Bergen-op-Zoom. The inscription from his memorial was recorded in the 1660s by the English traveller Philip Skippon.

Philip Skippon esquire, An Account of a Journey made thro' part of the Low-Countries, Italy and France (1663). Reproduced in: A Collection of Voyages and Travels some now first printed from Original Manuscripts others now first published in English in six volumes (3rd edition, London, 1746), VI, p.400.

Service record

THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, BERGEN-OP-ZOOM

Departed 1612-12-31, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY