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Military service
Service number:
135833
Age:
29
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Mounted Rifles
Division:
2nd Battalion
Birth:
August 22, 1887
Owen Sound, Ontario
Enlistment:
July 15, 1915
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 16, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of the late Dr. Thomas and Mary E. Trotter, of Toronto, Ontario.
Additional citations
British War Medal, Victory Medal
Digital gallery of Private Edward Burton Trotter
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Newspaper Clipping
Pte. Trotter's attestations lists his mother's address as 717 Carlton. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of EDWARD BURTON TROTTER
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
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) -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1916. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Edward Burton Trotter
was born Edgar Burton Trotter on August 22, 1884 in Owen Sound, Ontario. He was the son of Thomas Trotter of Milton, Ontario and Mary Elizabeth Sim of Liverpool, England. -
Memorial
to Pte. E. Trotter on his mother's grave marker located in St. John's Norway Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario.
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Private Edward Burton Trotter
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Burton Trotter
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Burton Trotter
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Burton Trotter
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Burton Trotter
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Burton Trotter
Digital gallery of
Private Edward Burton Trotter
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 175 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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