Richard Bogue

Captain Richard Bogue (24 October 1782 – 18 October 1813) was a British Army officer who commanded a company of the Rocket Brigade at the Battle of Leipzig, where he was killed in action.

Biography Bogue was the youngest son of John Bogue, a Royal Navy surgeon, of Fareham, Hampshire, and was born at Titchfield, Hampshire on 24 October 1782. The Scottish preacher David Bogue was his great-uncle. He entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich as a cadet on 31 January 1797, passing out as a second lieutenant of the Royal Artillery on 14 July 1798. He was then promoted to the rank of Lieutenant on 10 February 1800 and became a second captain on 18 March 1806. and a stone monument was erected over his grave in 1815 by national subscription. This monument was restored in 1896, and again in 1930. In Tichfield church a commemorative plaque in his memory was placed in the choir, near the altar. In later years, the village of Taucha named a street in his memory. In January 1814, the Crown Prince of Sweden made Bogue posthumously a knight of the Swedish Royal Order of the Sword, and sent the cross to Captain Bogue's widow together with a gift of 10,000 dollars.

Family Bogue married Mary Isabella Hanson. Their son, Rev. John Robert Bogue, married Sophia Elizabeth, daughter of Richard Zachariah Mudge.