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Canadian Forces personnel carry the coffin of a deceased comrade onto an aircraft at Kandahar Air Field, 1 February 2009. The number of Canadian Forces' fatalities resulting from Canadian military activities in Afghanistan is the largest for any single Canadian military mission since the Korean War between 1950 and 1953. A total of 159 Canadian ...
The Tarnak Farm incident is the killing, by an American Air National Guard pilot, of four Canadian soldiers and the injury of eight others from the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry Battle Group (3PPCLIBG) on the night of April 17, 2002, near Kandahar, Afghanistan.
On 1 December 2009, the US president announced a major troop increase that sent another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan. [20] The Canadian troops remained mostly active in the Panjwai and Kandahar districts, where they were located at the end of 2009. [citation needed] Canadians were also active in the Zhari and Daman districts. [21]
The largest number of soldiers killed was when French troops were ambushed in the area of Sirobi, some 50 km (31 mi) east of Kabul, in August 2008. Ten French troops were killed and a further 21 wounded in the attack – the heaviest loss of troops France has suffered since deploying to Afghanistan in 2001.
U.S. officials say they are racing to evacuate as many people from Afghanistan as possible before the end of the month, when America's 20-year military presence in the country is scheduled to end.
Afghanistan Repatriation Memorial. The Afghanistan Repatriation Memorial is a war memorial in Trenton, Ontario, Canada to memorialize Canadian Forces casualties in Afghanistan. The memorial was funded by a public fundraiser announced in July, 2011, and opened November 11, 2012. [1] [2] [3]
The names of soldiers killed in Afghanistan were not engraved onto the memorial before the unveiling, as officials wanted to wait for the official end to the war in Afghanistan before including them. After the withdrawal of Canadian troops in 2014, the project head, Major Peter Boyle, expressed a desire to have those names included in time for ...
Pages in category "Canadian military personnel killed in the War in Afghanistan (2001–2021)" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .