Body of fallen Canadian soldier returns home
Last Updated: Monday, July 6, 2009 | 3:47 PM ET
CBC News
The casket containing the body of Corporal Nick Bulger is carried from the aircraft during a repatriation ceremony at CFB Trenton on Monday. (Peter Redman/Canadian Press) The body of Cpl. Nick Bulger, a Canadian soldier killed last week in Afghanistan, arrived in Canada Monday afternoon.
Defence Minister Peter MacKay and Gen. Walt Natynczyk, the chief of defence staff, joined Bulger's family for a repatriation ceremony at CFB Trenton, Ont.
Bulger, 30, is survived by his wife Rebeka and two daughters, Brooklyn, 4, and Elizabeth, 2, as well as his mother Kathleen, younger brothers and a sister.
He belonged to the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton.
Raised near Peterborough, Ont., Bulger was killed Friday when a roadside bomb exploded under the armoured vehicle he was travelling in during a patrol in the Zhari district.
Cpl. Nick Bulger, 30, was killed when his vehicle struck an improvised explosive device in Kandahar on Friday. (DND) Master Cpl. Charles-Philippe Michaud, died on Saturday without regaining consciousness from wounds he sustained in a bomb attack in Afghanistan on June 23.
Michaud, 28, was serving with the 2nd Battalion of the Royal 22nd Regiment (also known as the Van Doos), based at CFB Valcartier, near Quebec City.
Their deaths bring to 122 the number of Canadian soldiers killed in the Afghan mission since it began in 2002.
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