Lord Fraser’s Highland Levies
| Active | 1639 |
| 1644 to 1645 | |
| Country | Scotland |
| Allegiance | Covenanter |
| Conflicts | First Bishops’ War |
| First Civil War | |
| Type | Foot |
| Colonel | Lord Fraser |
| Area Raised | Aberdeenshire |
| Coat Colour | |
| Flag Colour | unknown |
| Flag Design | unknown |
| Field Armies | Montrose 1639 |
Contingent of Scots Covenanter Foot at the Trot O’ Turriff in 1639, Aberdeen in 1640 and fighting against Montrose in 1645
Service History
1639
- March: Raised in Aberdenshire
- March: Occupy Aberdeen
- May: Defence of Towie-Barclay Castle
- May: Trot O’ Turriff
- May: Occupy Aberdeen
- June: Skirmish at Brig o’ Dee
- June: Occupy Aberdeen
- June: Disbanded following the Treaty of Birks
1644
- Spring: Raised in Aberdeenshire
- April: Rendezvous with Argyll at Dunottar Castle
- May: Occupy Aberdeen
- May: Taking of Kellie Castle
- May: Taking of Gight Castle
- September: Battle of Aberdeen
1645
- February: Battle of Inverlochy
- May: Battle of Auldearn
- May: Skirmish at head of Strathdon
Notes
A history of the unit is shown in Edward M. Furgol’s A Regimental History of the Covenanting Armies 1639-1651 Edinburgh, 1990. ISBN 0 85976 194 0
Likely not formally regimented in 1639, Furgol labels them a ‘retinue’.
Fraser inflicted the first fatal casualty of the Civil Wars on the 10th of May 1639 when he killed David Prat, a servant of Sir George Gordon of Gight, while defending Towie-Barclay Castle from the Royalists. In 1645 his regiment were part of the force of Highland levies led to Inverlochy by the Earl of Seaforth.
