MONRO, DAVID [SSNE 467]

Surname

MONRO

First name

DAVID, LONG DAVID MONRO

Title/rank

LIEUTENANT

Nationality

SCOT

Social status

OFFICER

Text source

Long David Monro served as an ensign in the Danish-Norwegian army in 1626. He served in Colonel Donald Mackay's [SSNE 93] regiment and was wounded in action at Oldenburg in September 1627 and appointed lieutenant in the autumn of 1628.

T. Riis, Should Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (Odense, 1988), II, p.126 ; J. Mackay, 'Mackay's Regiment' in Transactions of the Gaelic Society of Inverness, VIII, 1879, p. 188; R Monro, His Expedition with a worthy Scots Regiment called Mac-keyes (London, 1637), I, pp.21 and 82 .

Service record

DENMARK-NORWAY, MACKAY'S REGIMENT

Arrived 1627-01-01, as ENSIGN

Departed 1628-10-04, as LIEUTENANT

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY