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Capt. Edward Stephen Fogarty Fegen VC.
Royal Navy HMS Jervis Bay
from:London
(d.5th Nov 1940)
Edward Fegen was killed in action on the 5th of Novemeber 1940, aged 49. He is Commemorated on the Chatham Naval Memorial in Kent and was the son of Frederick Fogarty Fegen and Catherine Mary Fegen, of Knightsbridge, London.
The citation in the London Gazette for 26th November, 1940, reads: "For valour in challenging hopeless odds and giving his life to save the many ships it was his duty to protect. On the 5th of November, 1940, in heavy seas, Captain Fegen, in His Majesty's Armed Merchant Cruiser Jervis Bay, was escorting thirty-eight Merchantmen. Sighting a powerful German warship he at once drew clear of the Convoy, made straight for the enemy and brought his ship between the raider and her prey, so that they might scatter and escape. Crippled, in flames, unable to reply, for nearly an hour the Jervis Bay held the German's fire. So she went down; but of the Merchantmen all but four or five were saved."
