YOUNG, JOHAN ADOLF [SSNE 4794]

Surname

YOUNG, LEIJONANCKER, LEIJONJANCKER

First name

JOHAN ADOLF, JOHN

Text source

Johan Adolf Young Leijonjancker was the son of Daniel Young [SSNE 4206] and Margareta Granatenfelt (his father was ennobled to Leijonjancker in Sweden). Johan was baptised on 22 June 1673. Thereafter he became a 'gefreiter' corporal and later sergeant in the Churfurst of Brandenburg's regiment. Serving as an NCO musketeer, Young served in the Brandenberg regiment in England and Ireland. While there he campaigned at Drogheda, Cork, Kinsail and Limmerick before moving on to Flanders with Sternkerck. Eventually, in 1701 he joined the Kalmar regiment as a sergeant. In total, Leijonjancker served 12 years as an NCO and Adjutant. His campaign history was written down in 1702 in a letter penned by one Gustaf Ranck in Crackow, Poland on 28 August 1702 to Karl XII. In this letter, Ranck pressed for leijonancker's promotion which was subsequently granted. He became an ensign on 20 March 1703. The following year he was promoted again to lieutenant and advanced to the rank of captain by 1708. He died unmarried the following year - possibly at Poltava. 

Sources: Svenska Adelns Attartavlor, vol. 4, p.523; H. Marryat, One Year in Sweden, including a visit to the isle of Gotland (London, 1862), p.492; F. Rudelius, 'Kalmar Regementes Personhistoria 1623-1927 (2 vols., Norköping, 1952), I, p.184.

Service record

SWEDEN, THE DUTCH REPUBLIC, CHURFURST OF BRANDENBURG'S REGIMENT, ENGLAND, IRELAND AND FLANDERS

Departed 1701-05-01, as SERGEANT

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY

SWEDEN, KALMAR REGIMENT, CRACOW, POLTAVA

Departed 1709-06-28, as CAPTAIN

Capacity OFFICER, purpose MILITARY