[5] He also played field hockey, tennis and rugby union and was considered "a first-class draughts player".
[7] In August 1915 he appeared as a replacement forward at half-time for the Southland hockey team in a representative match against Otago.
[9] After training in New Zealand his unit left the country in February 1916, arriving at Suez in Egypt the following month.
Initially working at Invercargill, where he joined Appleby Cricket Club in September 1919, he transferred to the banks' branch at Wyndham, his hometown, in October.
[18] The following season he played in the first-class match against the touring Australian side in March 1921, scoring five runs in his only innings.
[22] By October 1922 the cricket correspondent for The Southland Times was of the view that "on his form of the last two seasons, Bogue is going the right way to land himself in a New Zealand team".
Playing for a Northern Districts team against an Invercargill representative side, the paper said that he "gave a fine exhibition behind the sticks, and it is evident that there is not much wrong with this brilliant young performer of a few years ago.
It is to be hoped that he will be back in the game before long, as wicket-keepers of the class of him and Jim Gilbertson are not often met with in the South Island these days.
After playing a trial match in January 1925 it wrote that "it was evident that he still retains much of his old brilliance behind the sticks" and that "he would strengthen the next Southland team".