Trooper Brian Richard Good was a member of the Royal Canadian Dragoons stationed at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa. Trooper Brian Richard Good was a member of the Royal Canadian Dragoons stationed at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa. (Department of National Defence)

Hundreds of mourners packed an Ottawa chapel Monday to remember a soldier who would always drop everything to help someone in need.

Trooper Brian Good, 42, was killed Jan. 7 when an improvised explosive device detonated near the armoured vehicle in which he was travelling in Afghanistan's Shah Wali Kowt district, about 35 kilometres north of the city of Kandahar.

At Good's funeral at the Beechwood National Memorial Centre on Monday, his brother, Stephen, said Good would go to any lengths to help friends and family at home and his comrades in Afghanistan.

Good, who was married and had two teenaged daughters, joined the Canadian Armed Forces three years ago. He was on his first tour in Afghanistan when he was killed. Three other soldiers were injured.

Good was a member of the Royal Canadian Dragoons, serving with the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Canadian Regiment and stationed at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa in eastern Ontario.

His colleagues have said he was an easygoing man with a big smile who was devoted to his family.

Good's death is the first in 2009 of a Canadian soldier and brings the Canadian military's death toll in Afghanistan to 107 since the mission began seven years ago. One Canadian diplomat and two Canadian aid workers have also been killed.

Canada has about 2,500 soldiers in Afghanistan, mostly based in the south around Kandahar. The military mission is slated to end in 2011.