Orders, Decorations and Medals

The miniature group of six medals representing the awards of Major C. F. Hoey, V.C., M.C., Lincolnshire Regiment, comprising, Victoria Cross; Military Cross, G.VI.R.; 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaf; together with, original named commission certificate ‘Second Lieutenant, Lincolnshire Regiment, 29 January 1937’; two named bronze regimental sports medals named to him as a private in the Royal West Kent Regiment, one dated August 1933; one unnamed shooting prize medal; and a Lincolnshire Regiment cap badge, nearly extremely fine (10) £200-300

Major Charles Ferguson Hoey was awarded the Victoria Cross London Gazette 18 May 1944 ‘After a night march through Japanese occupied territory near the Ngakyedauk Pass, in Arakan, on the Burma Front on 16 February 1944. A Company of the Lincolnshire Regiment led by Major Hoey came under devastating machine-gun fire, but the advance to the position which was to be captured never wavered. Though wounded in the head and leg, Major Hoey, racing ahead of his men, tackled single handed the strong point which was giving so much trouble. Not an occupant remained alive, but in the moment of his triumph he was mortally wounded.’