Military Commissions. Military Records.
Found in 148 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous commissions to Donald MacLeod while on military service in Holland., 1689-1701.
Miscellaneous correspondence and papers, mostly of John Buchan, with some concerning other Buchan family members, mainly relating to the First World War., 1863-1977.
Miscellaneous material of and concerning the family of Mure of Caldwell., 1582, 17th century-19th century.
Miscellaneous material of and concerning the family of Mure of Caldwell., 17th century-19th century.
Miscellaneous papers relating to James Augustus Grant., 1846-1878.
Includes: commissions to Grant as ensign, lieutenant, captain, major, and lieutenant-colonel,1846-1869; warrants to him as Companion of the Bath and Companion of the Star of India, 1866, 1869; commission to him as Deputy Lieutenant of Nairnshire, 1876; his passport, 1863; his burgess tickets of Nairn and Dingwall, 1863; and minute of his freedom of the Turners` Company, 1878.
Miscellaneous papers relating to militia, and correspondence and papers relating to county affairs., 1746-1827.
Naval commissions in favour of Admiral John Elliot., 1758-1805.
Order of promotion from supernumerary cornet to active cornet in Dutch service, to George Graeme., 1775.
Papers of Sir Eyre Coote., 1778-1783.
Papers of Sir Gilbert Elliot, 3rd Baronet, concerning the office of Commissary-General to the army in Germany., 1761.
Papers of Sir Thomas Graham, afterwards Baron Lynedoch.
Includes: Commissions, 1777, of the Honorable Charles Cathcart in the 23rd Foot (Ch.2526); commissions, 1795, of Archibald Campbell in the 30th (Ch.2529), and a roll, 1802, of Freeholders of Perthshire (Ch.2530).
Personal and legal papers of and concerning the Lairds of Inchbraikie, chiefly adjudications and decreets, 1675-1718, concerning the wadset of the lands of Beldhill., 1555-1796.
The papers also consist of instructions of Perthshire Committee of War, 1639, (folio 8), and commission to Patrick, younger of Inchbraikie, to act as Colonel for the shire of Perth, 1651 (folio 10).
Photostats of documents concerning Colonel James Ferguson and his regiment, namely his commission, 1698, and lists of the companies of the regiment, 1705., 1698, 1705.
There are two copies of many of the pages.
Promotion to Major, George Drummond Graeme, King`s German Legion., 1837.
Rear-Admiral Lord John Hay papers., 1814-1815.
Appointments to the command of H.M. sloops Minorca, 1814, Bastard, 1814, and Opossum, 1815.
Summaries and extracts of documents not inserted into the manuscript (Adv.MSS.81.3.1-81.3.14) of ‘Papers Illustrating the History of the Scots Brigade in the Service of the United Netherlands 1572-1782’, edited by James Ferguson., 1901, or before.
Three commissions, 1813, 1830, 1848, appointing William Thomson successively Deputy Assistant Commissary, Assistant Commissary, and Deputy Commissary-General of Stores, Provisions and Forage to the Forces; and a Treasury account, 1819, paying him for provisions for the Army at Stralsund, 1813-1814.
Two commissions in favour of Sir William Gordon of Afton.
Comprised of: one granted by William and Mary, 1690, appointing him Captain in the Company of Grenadiers of the regiment of Foot commanded by David, Earl of Leven (i.e. the 25th Regiment of Foot); and the other by George I, 1715, appointing him Lieutenant-Governor of Fort William.
Two commissions, one granted by Charles II, 1684, the other by James II, 1685, in favour of Honorable James Douglas, appointing him Colonel of the Regiment of Guards in Scotland.
Various military commissions.
The commissions are in favour of:
William Arnot, Major in Mackay`s Regiment, 1693;
Sir William Arnot, Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2nd Dragoon Guards, 1748, 1772; and,
Thomas Arnot, Major in the Marines, 1760, 1772, 1774, 1782-1783.