Tilston, Frederick Albert Victoria Cross Recipient

Tilston, Frederick Albert (1906-1992). Born in Toronto on June 11th, 1906, Tilston served with the Essex Scottish regiment at the time of the Rhineland campaign. Leading his men into German trenches at the edge of the Hochwald forest, a wounded Tilston pressed the attack and blew up a machine-gun nest with a grenade. He then recrossed an open area five times, in order to supply his men with ammunition and grenades, despite a second wound. It was on his sixth and final run that Tilson was wounded for a third time. One of Tilston's legs had been blown off below the knee and doctors were forced to amputate his other leg below the knee.

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