This trophy is named for Major-General Charles S.L.Hertzberg, CB, MC, VD, who served with the Canadian Engineers in the First World War and became the first Chief Engineer of the First Canadian Army during the Second World War. The trophy is a silver figure of a Second World War Sapper using a mine detector and is a modified version of an item of silver held in the Royal Engineer Mess at the Royal School of Military Engineering, Chatham, England. The trophy was first awarded in 1951 and is presented to the Reserve Force unit having carried out the most outstanding Sapper Task during the training year.