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Two Toronto V.C. winners met today at Christie St. hospital. Paratrooper C Toppy Topham, who won his decoration as medical orderly east of the Rhine. (...)

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Two Toronto V.C. winners met today at Christie St. hospital. Paratrooper C Toppy Topham, who won his decoration as medical orderly east of the Rhine. (...)

Date8/4/1945

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Tilston, Frederick Albert, 1906-1992 (subject)

Topham, Fredrick George, 1917-1974 (subject)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Unknown (photographer)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Two Toronto V.C. winners met today at Christie St. hospital. Paratrooper C Toppy Topham, who won his decoration as medical orderly east of the Rhine. shown, left, during a visit with Maj. Fred Tilston, decorated for action in Holland Tilston is in the hospital for an operation. [Incomplete]

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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0028557F

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