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January 15, 2006: Diplomat Glyn Berry was killed and three soldiers injured by a suicide bomber in Kandahar. They were patrolling in a G Wagon.
March 2, 2006: Cpl. Paul Davis died and six others were injured when their LAV III collided with a civilian taxi just west of Kandahar during a routine patrol. The soldiers were with the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.
March 5, 2006: Master Cpl. Timothy Wilson of Grande Prairie, Alta., succumbed to injuries suffered in the LAV III crash on March 2 in Afghanistan. Wilson died in hospital in Germany.
March 28-29, 2006: Pte. Robert Costall was killed in a firefight with Taliban insurgents in the desert north of Kandahar. A U.S. soldier and a number of Afghan troops also died and three Canadians were wounded. Costall was a member of 1st Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton.
April 22, 2006: Four soldiers were killed when their armoured vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb near Gombad, north of Kandahar. They were Cpl. Matthew Dinning, stationed at Petawawa, Ont.; Bombardier Myles Mansell, based in Victoria; Lieut. William Turner, stationed in Edmonton, and Cpl. Randy Payne of CFB Wainwright, Alta.
May 17, 2006: Capt. Nichola Goddard, a combat engineer with the Royal Canadian Horse Artillery and Canada’s first female combat death, killed during battle against Taliban forces in the Panjwai region, 24 kilometres west of Kandahar.
July 22, 2006: A suicide bomber blows himself up in Kandahar, killing two Canadian soldiers and wounded eight more. Cpl. Francisco Gomez, an anti-armour specialist from the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry in Edmonton, was driving the Bison armoured vehicle targeted by the bomber’s vehicle. Cpl. Jason Patrick Warren of the Black Watch in Montreal was riding in the vehicle.
September 3, 2006: WO Richard Francis Nolan, WO Frank Robert Mellish, Sgt. Shane Stachnik, and Pte. William Jonathan James Cushley, all based at CFB Petawawa, west of Ottawa, were among four soldiers killed in fierce fighting in southern Afghanistan. Several more soldiers were wounded.
September 18, 2006: Four soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber riding a bicycle detonated explosives in the Panjwai area. Cpl. Shane Keating, Cpl. Keith Morley and Pte. David Byers, 22, all members of the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry from Shilo, Man and Cpl. Glen Arnold, a member of the 2 Field Ambulance, from Petawawa, Ont. were killed in the attack that wounded several others.
November 27, 2006: Two Canadian soldiers, Chief WO Albert Storm and Sgt. Maj. Bob Girouard, were killed on the outskirts of Kandahar on Monday when a suicide car bomber attacked a convoy of military vehicles. The soldiers were members of the Royal Canadian Regiment based in Petawawa, Ont. They were in an armoured personnel carrier that had just left the Kandahar Airfield base when a vehicle drove up to it and detonated explosives. 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010
Rest eternal grant to them, O Lord. And let light perpetual shine upon them. May their souls, and the souls of all the departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen
For the Armed Forces Almighty God, we commend to your gracious care and keeping all the men and women of our armed forces at home and abroad. Defend them day by day with your heavenly grace; strengthen them in their trials and temptations; give them courage to face the perils which beset them; and grant them a sense of your abiding presence wherever they may be; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
For Peace O God, it is your will to hold both heaven and earth in a single peace. Let the design of your great love shine on the waste of our wraths and sorrows, and give peace to your Church, peach among nations, peace in our homes, and peace in our hearts; through your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
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July 9, 2006: Cpl. Anthony Joseph Boneca,
a reservist, with the Lake Superior Scottish Regiment based in Thunder
Bay, Ont., was killed as Canadian military and Afghan security forces were
pushing through an area west of Kandahar City that had been a hotbed of
Taliban activity.
August 3, 2006: Cpl. Christopher Jonathan Reid,
with the 1st Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry,
based in Edmonton, died overnight when a Canadian Light Armoured Vehicle,
or LAV-3, was struck by a roadside bomb. Later the same say, three more
Canadian soldiers were killed during a separate attack with rocket
propelled grenades near Kandahar city. According to a DND website late
Thursday, Sgt. Vaughn Ingram of the 1st Battalion
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, and Cpl. Bryce
Jeffrey Keller of the 1st Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian
Light Infantry were also killed. The fourth dead soldier was Pte. Kevin
Dallaire. Several other Canadian soldiers were injured in the attack. 
August 5, 2006: Master Cpl. Raymond Arndt,
of the Edmonton-based Loyal Edmonton Regiment, was killed Aug. 5 when a
G-Wagon making a supply run collided with a civilian truck.
August 9, 2006:
Master Cpl. Jeffrey Scott Walsh,
based out of Shilo, Man. with the second batallion of the Princess
Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, was conducting routine operations
along Highway One near the Zhari district centre, about 20 kilometres west
of Kandahar city was he was shot in a “weapons related accident” unrelated
to enemy fire about noon Wednesday, just days after arriving in Kandahar
to begin his tour of duty.
August 11, 2006: Cpl. Andrew James Eykelenboom
with the 1st Field Ambulance based in Edmonton, was killed when
his vehicle was hit by a suicide bomber.
August 22, 2006: Cpl. David Braun, a
recently arrived soldier with the second battalion of the Princess
Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, was killed by a suicide bomber outside
the gates of Camp Nathan Smith in Kandahar City. The soldier, in his 20s,
was a native of Raymore, Sask. Three other Canadian soldiers were injured
in the afternoon attack.
September 4, 2006: Pte. Mark Anthony Graham,
a member of 1st Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, based at CFB Petawawa,
Ont., killed and dozens of others wounded in a friendly fire incident
involving an American A-10 Warthog aircraft.
September 29, 2006: Pte. Josh Klukie was
killed by an improvised explosive device, while he was conducting a foot
patrol in the Panjwaii district in Kandahar province.
October 3, 2006: Sgt. Craig Gillam and Cpl.
Robert Mitchell of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, based in Petawawa,
Ont., killed in series of mortar, rocket attacks just west of Kandahar
city
October 7, 2006:
Trooper Mark Andrew Wilson of
the Royal Canadian Dragoons, based in Petawawa, Ont., was killed when his
armoured vehicle was hit by a roadside explosion in the Panjwaii district.
October 14, 2006: A storm of gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades
killed Sgt. Darcy Tedford of Charles Company, 1st
Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment, based in Petawawa, Ont. and
Pte. Blake Williamson, also based in Petawawa, in southern
Afghanistan. Three others are expected to recover from their wounds.
