Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37205/supplement/3965. No. B. 39039 Corporal Frederick George Topham, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion. On 24th March 1945 east of the Rhine, North-West Europe, when two medical orderlies had been killed while attending to a wounded man lying in the open, Corporal Topham, on his own initiative, went out and while he was attending to the casualty, was shot through the nose. In spite of his wound he carried on, bringing the wounded man in under continuous fire, and refusing to have medical treatment until all the casualties had been cleared. Later in the day he rescued three men from a carrier which had been hit, regardless of the fact that the carrier's own ammunition was exploding.
Fold3_Team · 31 Oct 2023
Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37205/supplement/3965. No. B. 39039 Corporal Frederick George Topham, 1st Canadian Parachute Battalion. On 24th March 1945 east of the Rhine, North-West Europe, when two medical orderlies had been killed while attending to a wounded man lying in the open, Corporal Topham, on his own initiative, went out and while he was attending to the casualty, was shot through the nose. In spite of his wound he carried on, bringing the wounded man in under continuous fire, and refusing to have medical treatment until all the casualties had been cleared. Later in the day he rescued three men from a carrier which had been hit, regardless of the fact that the carrier's own ammunition was exploding.