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Bernard Freeman Trotter. First
Accrual. 1911-1924. – 40 cm of textual records.
Box 1
Series 1:
Correspondence. -- 1916-1917. -- 5 cm of textual records. -- Title based
on content of the series.
1a - Letters from England
All letters are handwritten and written to Trotter’s mother or father,
“folks” or “people”, unless otherwise indicated.
F.1 1916
March 21, postcard
March 22, postcard
March 22, letter, 4 p.
March 23, letter, 3 p.
March 24, letter, 6 p.
March 29, letter, 1 p.
March 30, letter, 12 p.
F.2 1916
April 10, letter, 3 p.
April 12, letter, 7 p.
April 16, letter, 7 p.
April 20, letter, 8 p.
April 23, letter, 6 p.
April 30, letter, 3 p. (from Canadian Military School, Shorncliffe, Kent)
F.3 1916
May 4, letter
May 17, letter, 4 p.
May 23, letter, 4 p. ( to “Marj”)
May 28, letter, 4 p.
May 30, letter, 4 p.
F.4 1916
June 3, letter, 2 p.
June 10, letter, 4 p.
June 10, letter, 6 p.
June 11, letter, 4 p. (to “Frances”)
June 21, letter, 6 p.
June 25, letter, 4 p.
June 30, letter, 8 p.
F.5 1916
July 3, letter, 6 p.
July 5, letter, 8 p.
July 11, letter, 3 p.
July 12, letter, 6 p.
July 19, letter, 8 p.
July 23, letter, 8 p.
July 30, letter, 12 p.
F.6 1916
August 6, letter, 8 p.
August 11, postcard.
August 20, postcard.
August 22, letter, 16 p. (to “My Darling Frank”)
August 27, letter, 8 p.
August 29, letter, 12 p.
F.7 1916
September 4, letter, 12 p.
September 10, letter, 8 p.
September 14, letter, 7 p.
September 20, letter, 6 p.
September 25, letter, 12 p.
F.8 1916
October 2, letter, 12 p.
October 8, letter, 4 p. (to “Marjorie”)
October 15, letter, 8 p.
October 22, letter, 5 p.
October 26, letter, 2 p.
October 29, letter, 8 p.
F.9 1916
November 4, letter, 8 p.
November 8, letter, 5 p. (to “Rex”)
November 12, letter, 2 p.
November 21, letter, 6 p.
November 26, letter, 8 p. (to “Rex”)
F.10 1916
December 2, letter, 3 p.
December 9, letter, 12 p.
December 12, letter, 2 p.
December 12, carbon typescript (transcription), 1 p.
Series 1b - Letters from France
F.11 1916
December 14, letter, 5 p.
December 18, letter, 12 p.
December 22, letter, 2 p.
December 25, letter, 2 p.
December 29, letter, 5 p. (To “Marj”)
December 29, postcard.
F.12 1917
January 3, letter, 3 p.
January 6, letter, 1 p.
January 10, letter, 4 p.
January 13, letter, 4 p.
January 19, letter, 4 p.
January 22, letter, 8 p.
January 28, letter, 4 p.
F.13 1917
February 4, letter, 10 p.
February 11, letter, 4 p.
February 18, letter, 3 p.
February 26, letter, 2 p.
F.14 1917
March 4, letter, 5 p.
March 6, letter, 2 p.
March 9, letter, 6 p.
March 14, letter, 4 p.
March 18, letter, 4 p.
March 21, letter, 2 p.
March 25, letter, 12 p.
March 29, letter, 4 p. (incomplete?) (to “Frank’)
F.15 1917
April 4, letter, 4 p.
April 9, letter, 4 p.
April 15, letter, 4 p.
April 21, letter, 8 p.
April 22, letter, 2 p. (to “Rex”)
April 27, letter, 4 p.
F.16-F.17 Transcriptions of the above letters (2 sets)
Series 2:
Manuscript Notebooks. -- 1916. -- 5 cm of textual records. -- Title based
on content of the series.
Notebook #1 “Field Engineering”/“Lectures on Bomb Work”.
One section dated Thursday April 20 [1916], 39 p. + 30 p.
Notebook #2 “Tactics”, undated [1916]. 48 p. With loose pages
of tactical notes inserted, 10 p.
Notebook #3 “Musketry”, C.M.S. Shorncliffe, June 1916, 58
p. + loose pages of musketry notes inserted, 3 p.
Notebook #4 “Notes on Military Topography”, C.M.S. Shorncliffe,
undated [1916], 23 p., with a map (drawn by B.F.T) of Lake Cecebe and
area (stamped on verso “Canadian Military School, Shorncliffe, Kent.”)
Notes, #5 Notes for a mapping assignment, with maps and descriptions,
21 August 1916, 10 p.
Notes, #6 “Guard Mounting”, “Going Up from Base”
and notes on related topics in small notebook, 22 p.
Notes, #7 Notes on discipline, saluting and supplies. Part of a notebook
with loose pages inserted, 10 p. total
Series 3:
Contract and royalty material relating to Canadian Twilight. --
1917-1924. -- 2 cm of textual records. -- Title based on content of the
series.
F. 18 Contract, 10 July 1917, correspondence and royalty statements,
1917-1924, 17 items.
F. 19 Notes by Bernard Trotter on the publication and
sales records, 1999, 2 p.
Series 4:
Printed instructional materials. -- 1914-1916. -- 8 cm of textual records.
– Title based on content of the series.
F. 20 Officers’ Training Course, Final Examinations, Canadian Military
School, June 3 1916, 5 papers.
F. 21
Officer Cadet Battalions - Six Monthly Examination, October 1916, 3 papers.
“Second Weekly Paper” - exam for officer cadets, undated,
1 p.
“Problems in map reading”, exam, 1 p. Refers to Dundas Valley
map which accompanies the exam, Dec. 1914, 1 p.
F. 22 Course Outlines, undated [1916], 9 p., some annotations.
F. 23 “Maneuver Map of Cedarvale District”, Dec. 15, 1914.
F. 24
Duplicated instructional sheets issued by The Canadian Headquarters Machine
Gun School, Shorncliffe, all undated:
“Machine Guns in the Trenches”
“Characteristics of the Machine Gun”
“Machine Guns in Defence”
“Overhead Fire”/“Night Firing”
“Machine Guns in Attack”
“War Establishment of Infantry Battalion”
F. 25 Samples of army forms, 4 items.
F. 26 Map reading instrument.
F. 27 Postcard (Stratford on Avon), picture of an English church, 2 shooting
targets.
Box 2
Series 5:
Printed training manuals. -- 1909-1916. -- 14 cm of textual records. --
Title based on content of the series.
Envelope #1 Musketry Regulations, Part I , 1909 (reprinted
with amendments, 1914), General Staff War Office, xii, 320 p. + plates
I-XXXIV
Envelope #2 Field Service Regulations Part I, Operations 1909
(reprinted with amendments 1914), General Staff War Office, 16 p.+ 302
p. + 23 p.
Envelope #3 Every Officer’s Notebook of Movements & Words
of Command in Infantry Drill by Fusilier Toronto Oxford University
Press(Canadian Branch): n.d. 48 p. + p. 49- 66 blank. Also includes small
chart in B.F.T.’s hand, “Squad Drill with Intervals”.
Envelope #4 The Guide: a Manual for the Canadian Militia(lnfantry)compiled
by Maj. Gen. Sir Wm. Otter. Ninth edition (revised 1914), Copp Clarke:
Toronto, 1914, 325 p.
Envelope #5 Field Service Pocket Book 1914, General Staff- War
Office: London, 1914. xii + 290 p. (plus maps), H.M. Stationery Office
Abroad: T. Fisher Unwin, 290 p.
Envelope #6 Another copy of the above - Reginald G. Trotter’s copy
(B.F.T.’s brother), with pamphlets folded in, including Harvard
University Requirements for Members of the Students’ Army Training
Corps.
Envelope #7 Infantry Training(4 company organization).General
Staff War Office: London, 1914, xviii, 265 p. + plates l-XV.
Envelope #8 Musketry Small Book: Scoring Book for Canadian Forces.
With Notes on Ross and Short Lee and Enfield Rifles by Lieutenant Raker,
Canadian School of Musketry, Shorncliffe. W.S. Paine & Co.: Hythe,
Kent, n.d., unpaginated.
Envelope #9 Notes on Musketry Training for Use by Instructors.
By S.M. Raker, Shorncliffe . W.S. Paine & Co.: Hythe, Kent, 1915,
27 p.
Envelope #10 Notes on Platoon and Company Drill to Be Read
in Conjunction with Infantry Training. General Staff, War Office.
Harrison and Sons: London 1916, 64 p.
Envelope #11 The Soldier’s English-German Dictionary. Gale
& Polden Ltd.: London, Aldershot and Portsmouth, n.d. 19 p.
Envelope #12 The Colt Automatic Gun, Model 1914(Browning's Patent).
Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company: Hartford, Connecticut,
n.d., 28 p.
Envelope #13 Colt "303" Machine Gun, General Description. Harrison
and Sons: London, 1916, 15 p.
Envelope #14 Notes on Map Reading for use in Army Schools. Harrison
and Sons: London 1915, 32 p. + 17 p.
Envelope #15 Notes on Methods of Giving Fire Orders by Lieut.
G.E. Coffey, School of Musketry. W.S. Paine & Co.: Hythe, Kent, 1916,
34 p.
Series 6:
Published copies of BFT’s work. -- 1920-1922. -- 2 cm of textual
records. -- Title based on content of the series.
Envelope #16
Presentation copy of A Canadian Twilight, 3rd. edition, 1920.
Presented by the Faculty of McMaster University to Mrs. Ellen Freeman
Trotter.
F.1 Sheet music for a song: Good Night. Words by Bernard Freeman
Trotter, Music by Mabel Stark. Anglo-Canadian Music Co.: Toronto, 1922
Series 7:
Pamphlets from Baptist Churches. -- 1911- [1918]. -- 2 cm of textual recordss.
-- Title based on content of the series.
F.2
Bloor Street Baptist Church, Order of Service, September 3, 1911, 4 p.
Bloor Street Baptist Church, memorial sermon by W.A. Cameron, undated
[1918?], 12 p.
Wychwood Baptist Church, pamphlet commemorating laying of the cornerstone,
1911.
Series 8:
Programme, pamphlet, transcripts, clippings and photocopied background
material on Bernard Freeman Trotter. -- 1915-1930 -- 2 cm of textual records.
-- Title based on content of the series.
F.3
Programme: Unveiling of the Tablet (McMaster, 1921); clippings,
including photograph clipped from The Tatler; clippings from Toronto
newspapers; article “Where is Canadian Literature?” by J.M.
Gibbon, Canadian Magazine, February 1918; printed list of the graves
in Mazingarbe Cemetery (1925).
10 items total.
F.4
Transcript of diary entry and transcripts of 2 letters:
Transcript of passages concerning a visit to BFT’s grave from “Diary
of Trip Abroad” by Frances and Marjorie Trotter, Summer 1930, 2
p.
Transcript of letter to BFT’s father from Lt. Colonel C. Turner,
May 8, 1917, 1 p.
Transcript of letter to BFT’s father from I. Herbert Pearce, Baptist
padre of the Division, May 9, 1917.
F.5 Photocopied background material on Bernard Freeman Trotter.
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