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CAPTAIN BOGUE AND THE ROCKET BRIGADE. 
COMMUNICATED BY 
COLONEL F. A. WHIN YATES, late R.H.A. 
Towards the end of 1895, the Saxon War Minister, General von der 
Planitz, in a conversation with Colonel H. J. F. Shea, (late R.A.) 
remarked that in the cemetery at Taucha (4J miles from Leipsic) there 
was the monument to an English officer, who was killed at that battle 
on October 18th, 1813, and that it was in a neglected condition. In 
consequence of this information, last April, Colonel Shea with Major 
Addison (late R.H.A.) went from Dresden to Taucha, called upon the 
rector of that place, Herr Oberpfarrer Kuhn, and accompanied by him, 
visited the cemetery where they found and examined the monument, 
which bears in English and German the following inscription :— 
“ Let those journeying hither behold this stone. 
The memorial alike of private worth and military glory.” 
Sacred to 
Richard Rogue, Esq., 
a native of Hampshire in England, 
and Captain in his Britannic Majesty’s Regiment of Royal Horse Artillery, 
who fell in the 31st year of his age 
gloriously fighting for the combined cause of 
Germany and her allies, 
at the battle of Leipsic, on the 18th of October, 1813, 
while commanding the Congreve Rocket Brigade, 
having by distinguished services at the village PaunsdorfF 
borne a most conspicuous part 
in the victory of that memorable day. 
As a soldier, 
he united professional science with the most ardent valour, 
and in private life, 
as a husband and a father, 
(leaving a widow with two infant children) 
he afforded a model for every domestic virtue. 
That this distinguished officer therefore 
may live beyond the grave, 
his countrymen who have since visited this spot 
where his remains are interred, 
have at their own voluntary expense 
dedicated this memorial to his respected name. 
The history of the monument is contained in a document among the 
Taucha church records, dated 1837, of which the following is the 
substance. 
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