Bernard Freeman Trotter, Canadian Twilight and Other Poems of War and Peace. Toronto: McClelland, 1917. Copy from L.M. Montgomery's Personal Library. Archival and Special Collections, University of Guelph Library (s0024Hb001).

A Canadian Twilight and Other Poems of War & Peace was written by Bernard Freeman Trotter. Like Walter, Trotter’s ill health kept him from joining the War at its beginning. Determined to serve, he won a commission in the British army and was deployed to France with his Leicestershire Regiment in December 1916. He was killed by a shell nearly seven months later. His poems were collected by his father, Thomas Trotter, a Baptist minister and McMaster professor, who arranged for them to be published in Toronto by McClelland and Stewart in 1917. 

Trotter's poems evoke the wide variety of emotions that were also felt by Walter during the war including anxiety, reluctance, and enthusiasm. This volume was in Montgomery’s library.