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CAPTAIN BOGUE AND THE POCKET BRIGADE. 
ravine, and close to a large building [La Haye Sainte], occupied by 
friend and foe alternately, and a position more than ordinarily 
murderous. The Rocket troop was 200 yards to the left of this point .” 
Captain F. Robertson, R.A., 1 2 an old friend and comrade of one of the 
Rocket troop subalterns, Lieut. Adam Ward, 3 whom he calls a gallant 
and energetic artilleryman, was told by him in after years, that two 
guns being detached, under Lieut. Wright, 3 and all the other officers 
wounded, he was left with a sergeant and five gunners only at the end 
of the day with the other guns on the main position. 
It is to be much regretted that among the numerous reductions 
which took place in the army at the end of the great war, the Rocket 
troop was included, and that thus, the only unit of the British Army 
which was present at the memorable battle of Leipsic, and which was 
also distinguished at the battle of Waterloo, does not now exist. 
1 Captain Frederick Robertson (Kane’s List, No. 1189) was the author of a number of papers on 
professional subjects in the United Service Gazette about the year 1837. Some of these were 
afterwards read by Major-General Sir Richard Dacres at the R.A. Institution. One paper 
concerns Nelson’s search for the Toulon squadron in 1805. Robertson, then a young subaltern 
officer, was quartered at Barbadoes, where he joined the Victory with a detachment of gunners. His 
description of the great Admiral and what occurred whilst he was on board the flagship, is most 
interesting: 
2 Lieutenant Adam Ward (Kane’s List, No. 1428) lost a leg in the affair at Tarbes in the south 
of T rance in March 1814. He and Captain Robertson had at one time served together in the same 
company. 
3 Lieutenant Amherst Wright (Kane’s List, No. 1359.) 
