Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

A Great War D.S.O. group of four awarded to Lieutenant-Colonel H. L. Trotter, Canadian Engineers

Distinguished Service Order, G.V.R., silver-gilt and enamel; British War and Victory Medals, M.I.D. oak leaf (Lt. Col. H. L. Trotter); Canadian Voluntary Service Medal 1939-45, with overseas clasp; War Medal 1939-45, silver, good very fine and better (5) £1000-1200

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, A Collection of Medals to the Canadian Expeditonary Force 1914-1918.

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D.S.O. London Gazette 1 January 1918.

Harold Lyndridge Trotter, who was born in Montreal in January 1883, and educated at the Royal Military College of Canada, at Kingston, Ontario, was appointed a Lieutenant in the Corps of Guides in November 1903. Having then transferred to the Reserve of Officers, he joined the Canadian Expeditionary Force at Ottawa in February 1916 and was appointed a Major in the Canadian Engineers.

Embarked for France in August 1916, he was appointed C.O. of 11th Field Company, C.E., in the following month, in which capacity he remained actively employed for the remainder of the War, though latterly as C.O. of the recently formed 11th Battalion, C.E., winning three “mentions” (London Gazettes 1 June and 8 December 1917, and 11 July 1919, refer), in addition to his D.S.O.

Demobilised back in Canada in July 1919, Trotter was re-employed in the Royal Canadian Engineers in the 1939-45 War, serving variously in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, Ottawa and Montreal, and was placed on the Retired List as a Lieutenant-Colonel in January 1944. He died in December 1959; sold with copied service records.