MARC LéGER

Sergeant 'Marc D. Léger' (March 26 1973-April 17 2002) was a Canadian soldier killed in Afghanistan when a U.S. plane dropped a laser-guided bomb on the 3rd Battalion of the Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry. The infantry was participating in a training exercise which involved firing anti-tank and machine-gun rounds.
Main articles: Tarnak Farm incident

Léger was originally from Lancaster, Ontario. He was 29 and had served in the Canadian Army for 9 years when he died.
Léger helped the villagers in the Livno Valley in Bosnia to rebuild following the civil war that left their village devasted.
Heroes: Real or Imagined? Bob Orrick
He is reported to have used every opportunity to provide the villagers with recycled building materials from the local NATO base, and to have ''"... badgered the local United Nations High Commission of Refugees' representative and any aid agency that drove through the area."
When the Bosnians learned of his death, one was quoted as saying: '' "We never could have returned to this valley without the help of that big Canadian soldier."
His widow, Marley Léger, created a memorial fund in his name to help with restoration in Bosnia, where her husband had served on a peace keeping mission in 2000.
In Honour of their Fallen Comrade Captain Cat Haylock
On May 10 2003, she opened a restored orthodox church nad community centre in the Vrbica village in Livno Valley there which was rebuilt using money from the fund and the Canadian International Development Agency.
Léger's mother, Claire Léger, was named the Silver Cross Mother in 2005 by the Royal Canadian Legion.

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★ Corporal Ainsworth Dyer

★ Private Richard Green

★ Private Nathan Lloyd Smith

★ Tarnak Farms

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