HOME, THOMAS [SSNE 3448]
- Surname
- HOME, HOME OF AYTON, HOPE
- First name
- THOMAS
- Title/rank
- CAPTAIN
- Region
- AYTON, BORDERS
- Social status
- OFFICER
Text source
According to Dr James Fallon, Captain Thomas Home of Ayton’s arrival in Denmark in 1626 was the first step of Scottish military enlistment into the Danish-Norwegian officer corps in the seventeenth century. He was not, and at least 30 other Scots arrived into the Danish-Norwegian armed forces before himJ. Fallon, ‘Scottish mercenaries in the service of Denmark and Sweden, 1626-1632’, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Glasgow, 1972, pp.195-196.
Service record
- DENMARK-NORWAY, ARMY
- Arrived 1626-01-01, as CAPTAIN
- Departed 1626-12-31, as CAPTAIN
- Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY