Canada's role in the invasion of Afghanistan/Sandbox

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Canada has suffered 26 fatalities involving soldiers in Afghanistan. A Canadian diplomat has also been killed. These fatalities include three to vehicular accidents and five, possibly six, to friendly fire.

Rank	Name	Unit	Date	Circumstance	References
Sergeant	Marc D. Leger	Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	18 April 2002	Main article: Afghanistan friendly fire incident Four soldiers are killed and eight wounded when an American F-16 fighter jet, piloted by U.S. Air National Guard Major Harry Schmidt, dropped a laser-guided 225-kilogram bomb on the Canadians who were on an exercise at Tarnak Farm, near Kandahar.	[1]
Corporal	Ainsworth Dyer
Private	Richard Green
Private	Nathan Smith
Sergeant	Robert Alan Short	Third battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	2 October 2003	Landmine incident along a road regularly used by Canadian patrols leaving Camp Julien. The mines are believed to have been placed along the road two hours before the patrol.	[2]
Corporal	Robbie Christopher Beerenfenger
Corporal	Jamie Brendan Murphy	Royal Canadian Regiment	27 January 2004	Victim of a suicide bombing while on patrol in a Iltis jeep.	[3]
Private	Braun Scott Woodfield	Second battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment	24 November 2005	Died in a LAV-III rollover on the main highway between Camp Julien and Kandahar.	[4]
Senior Foreign Affairs officer	Glyn Berry	Government of Canada	15 January 2006	Died in a suicide attack while being transported in an armoured G-wagon.	[5]
Master Corporal	Timothy Wilson	Unknown	March 2, 2006	Vehicular accident involving a LAV-III and a local taxi. Five others also injured.	[6]
Corporal	Paul Davis
Private	Robert Costall	First battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	29 March, 2006	Died while defending a coalition outpost outside Kandahar from Taliban insurgents, reportedly by American machine gun fire.	[7] [8] [9]
Corporal	Matthew Dinning	Unknown	22 April 2006	All four died when their armoured jeep struck a improvised explosive device North of Kandahar.	[10] [11] [12]
Lieutenant	William Turner
Bombardier	Myles Mansell
Corporal	Randy Payne
Captain	Nichola Goddard	Royal Canadian Horse Artillery	17 May, 2006	Killed during operations against insurgents. Goddard was the first Canadian woman to die in combat since WWII.	[13] [14]
Corporal	Anthony Boneca	Lake Superior Scottish Regiment	9 July, 2006	Killed during combat operations against Taliban insurgents.	[15]
Corporal	Francisco Gomez	Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	22 July, 2006	Two soldiers are killed, and eight wounded when their Bison armoured vehicle is attacked by a suicide bomber.	[16]
Corporal	Jason Patrick Warren	Royal Highland Regiment
Corporal	Christopher Jonathan Reid	Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	3 August, 2006	Killed by a roadside bomb while in an armoured vehicle.	[17]
Sergeant	Vaughn Ingram			All three soldiers killed, and nine wounded, during a RPG attack by insurgents.
Corporal	Bryce Jeffrey Keller
Private	Kevin Dallaire
Master corporal	Jeffrey Scott Walsh	Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry	9 August, 2006	Killed by the accidental discharge of a comrade's rifle while on patrol west of Kandahar. He had been in theater for less than a week.	[18] [19]
Coporal	Andrew James Eykelenboom	1st Field Ambulance	11 August, 2006	Killed by a suicide bomber while on a NATO patrol in a G-Wagon light utility vehicle.	[20] [21]