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Military service
Service number:
437278
Age:
36
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
12th Coy.
Birth:
July 30, 1881
Death:
August 23, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of Julia Elizabeth Trotter, of 6, Montem Rd., Forest Hill, London, England, and the late John Glass Trotter.
Digital gallery of Private Herbert John Trotter
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Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph of September 6, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214818/Daily-Telegraph-September-6-1917.html -
Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Telegraph of September 5, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12214817/Daily-Telegraph-September-5-1917.html -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Herbert John Trotter
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert John Trotter
Digital gallery of
Private Herbert John Trotter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 340 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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