Early Life
He was born at The Hague, the eldest son of Hans George Gugi (b.1700), of Zuben Thurgau, a Swiss Captain of the Guards who later joined the Dutch service, and his Dutch wife, Thérèse Reis. Gugy purchased a commission in the Dutch army before joining a newly formed British regiment, the King's Royal Rifle Corps as a lieutenant in 1756, serving under General James Wolfe at Quebec in 1759.
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