Orders, Decorations and Medals

Pair: Major-General Sir Archibald Bogle, Indian Army

Army of India 1799-1826, 1 clasp, Ava (Lieut. A. Bogle, Doing Duty 57th N.I.), short hyphen reverse, officially engraved naming; India General Service 1854-95, 1 clasp, Pegu (Lieutt. Coll. A Bogle, 22nd N.I.) minor edge bruising, good very fine (2) £1200-1600

Ex Alan Wolfe Collection 2005.

Archibald Bogle was born in Dumbarton on 18 August 1805. He was educated at Harrow and at the Royal Engineers Establishment, Chatham, and was nominated a Cadet in the East India Company’s Infantry in the 1822 season. Ensign Bogle arrived at Calcutta in May 1823, and soon after saw action in Burma in 1824-25, including the capture of Rangpur, and of the stockades of Dupha and Bisa, and in many minor affairs. He received a mention for his services which saw him soon promoted Lieutenant in May 1825. He served as regimental interpreter and Quartermaster, and in December 1827 was sent to act as Deputy Judge Advocate General to the Dinapore Division of the Bengal Army, the first in a succession of judicial and magisterial appointments which was to take him through posts in the Arakan, Upper and Lower Assam and, in 1849, to the Tenasserim Provinces in the role of Commissioner. In 1834 he had been responsible for the establishment of a Bhutanese colony in Assam and, two years later, he served against the Raja of Dewangiri in the pursuit of a Bhutanese force after thir defeat by a detachment of the Assam Sebundy Corps at Sorbang Katta stockade on the Bhutan frontier.

Bogle’s military promotions followed closely on his civil service successes, becoming Captain in 1832, Major in 1844, and Lieutenant-Colonel in February 1851. During the Second Burma war he was present at the capture of Martaban, and at the capture of Rangoon, being severely wounded on that occasion and several times mentioned in despatches. In April 1853 he was present at the capture of Beeling stockade, and at the end of that year had the honour of knighthood conferred on him for his services in Burma. Bogle was subsequently promoted Colonel in November 1854 and left India on sick furlough in March 1857, weeks before the outbreak of the mutiny, not to return. He was promoted to Hon. Major-General in August 1862, and died eight years later in London on 2 August 1870.