Honours
De Foy was vice president of the Carnegie Hero Fund.
On December 1, 1975 he was posthumously recognized as "Righteous Among the Nations" by Yad Vashem, for the help he had provided to Jews in Belgium.
He was the beneficiary of many honours, mainly after World War II, including:
- Belgium:
- Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold II
- Commander of the Order of Leopold
- Commander of the Order of the Crown
- Civic Cross First Class
- Other Countries
- Grand Officer of the Order of Ouissam Alaouite (Morocco)
- Grand Officer of the Ordo di Merito (Italy)
- Grand Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau (Netherlands)
- Grand Officer of the Wasaorde (Sweden)
- Grand Officer of the Crown (Romania)
- Grand Officer of the Order of Phoenix (Greece)
- Commander of the Order of the Redeemer (Greece)
- Commander of the Legion d'Honneur (France)
- Commander of The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (CBE)
- Commander of the Order of the White Eagle (Estonia)
- Commander of the Order of Merit (Austria)
- Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland)
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