Major Tilston earns Victoria Cross
Remembrance
Major Tilston earns Victoria Cross
Major Tilston earned the Victoria Cross for bravery in action on March 1, 1945.
Major Tilston, V.C.:
Frederick Albert Tilston of the Essex Scottish Regiment earns a Victoria Cross;
he is interviewed by the CBC;
Tilston, in a wheelchair, outside where other patients visit with him.
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Prisoner of War
Little could be done at the Dieppe hospital. As German Prisoners of War, the men were loaded into train boxcars for an overnight journey to a large hospital in Rouen, France for treatment by German doctors. Mr. Gorman’s friend, Ted Broadbent, accompanied him. He speaks of his friend’s kindness to the injured, refusing to tell anyone of his own injury which eventually resulted in Broadbent’s hospitalization in Germany.
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