Hoey Narrows

Hoey Narrows (53˚22'00" 129˚28'00" Off SE end of Pitt I, SW of Kitimat). Named in 1944 to honour Maj Charles Ferguson Hoey, VC, MC, who was killed in action Feb 17, 1944, at Arakan, Burma, aged 30. Hoey was from Duncan. He joined the British Army in 1936, trained as an officer at Sandhurst and was sent to Burma, where he received the MC in 1943 for outstanding service at Maungdaw. In 1944 he led his Lincolnshire Regiment company in attacking a heavy machine-gun position at Ngakyedauk Pass....

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