Captain Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen, R.N., V.C.

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Captain Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen, R.N., was awarded the Victoria Cross in 1940. He was the third Irishman to receive the award in this war.

Captain Fogarty Fegen was Commander of the armed merchant cruiser “Jervis Bay”, escorting thirty-eight merchantmen in the North Atlantic, when a powerful German warship was sighted. Captain Fogarty Fegen drew out from the convoy and made straight for the enemy. He brought his ship between the raider and the convoy so that the merchant ships were able to scatter. Thirty-three of them were saved. For nearly an hour the “Jervis Bay” held the enemy fire. She then blew up and sank, and Captain Fogarty Fegen went down with this ship.

Captain Fogarty Fegen was born in 1892, son of the late Vice-Admiral Fogarty Fegen. He came from Ballinunty, Co. Tipperary. In the last war he was a destroyer Commander. After the war, while on the China Station as Commander of H.M.S. “Suffolk”, he won commendation for rescuing fourteen of the crew of the German motor-ship “Hedwig” which had run aground in rough weather.

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The Victoria Cross awarded to Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen

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Captain EDWARD STEPHEN FOGARTY FEGEN V C, H.M.S. Jervis Bay, Royal Navy who died age 49 on 05 November 1940
Son of Frederick Fogarty Fegen and Catherine Mary Fegen, of Knightsbridge, London.
Remembered with honour CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL
Grave/Memorial Reference: 34, 1.


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[James S]

He took on the Admiral Scheer , rather like Ludovick Kennedy's father action against Scharnhorst and Gneinsenau.