Corporal, from 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron at 3 Wing Bagotville, Quebec. Aged 29, he was originally from Baie-Comeau, QC. He was deployed as a weapons technician with the Canadian contingent of NATO forces in Afghanistan.
He was killed along with WO Dennis Brown and Cpl Kenneth Chad O'Quinn after their armoured vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in the Arghandab District approximately 10 kilometres northwest of Kandahar City. They were returning to base after defusing another roadside bomb. Two other soldiers injured in the incident were evacuated by helicopter for medical treatment.
Cpl Fortin joined the air force branch in 2001 and was on his first mission in Afghanistan. "Dany-O" to his friends, he was described as an intelligent, sincere and morally upright soldier with a keen sense of humour. Raised in the Saguenay region, he was an ardent Montreal Canadiens fan and very involved in football. He is survived by his fiancée Manon Gaudreault, mother Christine Morin, father Laval Fortin (Hélène Baril), sister Valérie Fortin (Frédéric Lafleur), grandmothers and extended family.
Recipient of Sacrifice Medal (posthumous)
Funeral service held on Friday, March 13, 2009 at the St. Francis Xavier Cathedral of Chicoutimi, Saguenay. Cremation, with inurnment of ashes at Columbarium Chicoutimi (located within the cemetery).
The deaths bring to 111 the number of Canadian troops killed since the country's forces arrived in Afghanistan in 2002. One diplomat and two aid workers have also died.
He was killed along with WO Dennis Brown and Cpl Kenneth Chad O'Quinn after their armoured vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in the Arghandab District approximately 10 kilometres northwest of Kandahar City. They were returning to base after defusing another roadside bomb. Two other soldiers injured in the incident were evacuated by helicopter for medical treatment.
Cpl Fortin joined the air force branch in 2001 and was on his first mission in Afghanistan. "Dany-O" to his friends, he was described as an intelligent, sincere and morally upright soldier with a keen sense of humour. Raised in the Saguenay region, he was an ardent Montreal Canadiens fan and very involved in football. He is survived by his fiancée Manon Gaudreault, mother Christine Morin, father Laval Fortin (Hélène Baril), sister Valérie Fortin (Frédéric Lafleur), grandmothers and extended family.
Recipient of Sacrifice Medal (posthumous)
Funeral service held on Friday, March 13, 2009 at the St. Francis Xavier Cathedral of Chicoutimi, Saguenay. Cremation, with inurnment of ashes at Columbarium Chicoutimi (located within the cemetery).
The deaths bring to 111 the number of Canadian troops killed since the country's forces arrived in Afghanistan in 2002. One diplomat and two aid workers have also died.
Corporal, from 425 Tactical Fighter Squadron at 3 Wing Bagotville, Quebec. Aged 29, he was originally from Baie-Comeau, QC. He was deployed as a weapons technician with the Canadian contingent of NATO forces in Afghanistan.
He was killed along with WO Dennis Brown and Cpl Kenneth Chad O'Quinn after their armoured vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in the Arghandab District approximately 10 kilometres northwest of Kandahar City. They were returning to base after defusing another roadside bomb. Two other soldiers injured in the incident were evacuated by helicopter for medical treatment.
Cpl Fortin joined the air force branch in 2001 and was on his first mission in Afghanistan. "Dany-O" to his friends, he was described as an intelligent, sincere and morally upright soldier with a keen sense of humour. Raised in the Saguenay region, he was an ardent Montreal Canadiens fan and very involved in football. He is survived by his fiancée Manon Gaudreault, mother Christine Morin, father Laval Fortin (Hélène Baril), sister Valérie Fortin (Frédéric Lafleur), grandmothers and extended family.
Recipient of Sacrifice Medal (posthumous)
Funeral service held on Friday, March 13, 2009 at the St. Francis Xavier Cathedral of Chicoutimi, Saguenay. Cremation, with inurnment of ashes at Columbarium Chicoutimi (located within the cemetery).
The deaths bring to 111 the number of Canadian troops killed since the country's forces arrived in Afghanistan in 2002. One diplomat and two aid workers have also died.
He was killed along with WO Dennis Brown and Cpl Kenneth Chad O'Quinn after their armoured vehicle hit an improvised explosive device in the Arghandab District approximately 10 kilometres northwest of Kandahar City. They were returning to base after defusing another roadside bomb. Two other soldiers injured in the incident were evacuated by helicopter for medical treatment.
Cpl Fortin joined the air force branch in 2001 and was on his first mission in Afghanistan. "Dany-O" to his friends, he was described as an intelligent, sincere and morally upright soldier with a keen sense of humour. Raised in the Saguenay region, he was an ardent Montreal Canadiens fan and very involved in football. He is survived by his fiancée Manon Gaudreault, mother Christine Morin, father Laval Fortin (Hélène Baril), sister Valérie Fortin (Frédéric Lafleur), grandmothers and extended family.
Recipient of Sacrifice Medal (posthumous)
Funeral service held on Friday, March 13, 2009 at the St. Francis Xavier Cathedral of Chicoutimi, Saguenay. Cremation, with inurnment of ashes at Columbarium Chicoutimi (located within the cemetery).
The deaths bring to 111 the number of Canadian troops killed since the country's forces arrived in Afghanistan in 2002. One diplomat and two aid workers have also died.
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