One of the 60,000 Canadians who did not return from the First World War, Bernard Trotter's poignant poems were published after his death. His letters home revealed idealism spirit of dedication which led him to volunteer and also showbiz family in Canada, deeply engaged, albeit from a distance, and the faraway conflict. In the fall of 1915, the British war office, contacted the University of Toronto for help in recruiting students for the officer corps of the British Imperial Army. One of the 50 young men who answered the call to service was Bernard Freeman Trotter, a 25-year-old graduate of...
One of the 60,000 Canadians who did not return from the First World War, Bernard Trotter's poignant poems were published after his death. His letters ...
