Hi Mark
I can add that....
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...12 Field Ambulance made Canadian medical corps history becoming the only field ambulance to engage the enemy in combat. This occurred one morning in April 1945 in the German town of Sogel. German soldiers approached, and fired upon the casualty treatment facility under cover of darkness. The Commanding Officer quickly organized two platoons, and placed them at the approaches to the dressing stations. They held off the enemy for two hours; with weapons borrowed from the wounded -at the time medics didn't carry weapons- until a squadron of tanks arrived to relieve them. During the fighting the dressing station continued treating patients. The Commanding Officer, LCol A.D. MacPherson received the Distinguished Service Order for his leadership in this action; Cpl F.F. Thompson was awarded the Military Medal, and Capt Harry Jolley received the Member of the Order of the British Empire....
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_(Va...e#World_War_II
JR Noyes does not appear in the war dead or medals and decorations list at Library and Archives Canada.
Interestingly, there was a Frederick Walter Noyes who wrote about 5th Field Ambulance in the Great War.
regards
Darrell