Full Orchestra - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1443964 Composed by Kenneth Alford. Arranged by Kevin Riley. 20th Century,Film/TV,March. 70 pages. Kevin Riley #1023924. Published by Kevin Riley (A0.1443964). The Colonel Bogey March is a British march that was composed in 1914 by Lieutenant F. J. Ricketts(18811945) (pen name Kenneth J. Alford), a British Army bandmaster who later became the director of music for the Royal Marines at Plymouth. The march is often whistled. Featuring in films since it first appeared in The Lady Vanishes in 1938, Empire magazine included the tune in its list of 25 of Cinema's Catchiest Earworms.