Military Service Recognition Book - Volume 07

Lest We Forget - Volume 7 www.nfld.net/rclnfprovcom 91 Corporal BOUZANE, Stephen F. BORN: Springdale, Newfoundland Labrador UNIT: 3PPCLI KIA: 20th June, 2007 Corporal Stephen F. Bouzane of the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry was killed when the vehicle in which he was travelling struck an improvised explosive device approximately 40 km west of Kandahar City in Afghanistan. Sergeant LUCAS, Donald BORN: St. John’s, Newfoundland Labrador UNIT: 2 Royal Canadian Regiment KIA: April 8th, 2007 There were a total of 6 Canadian Soldiers killed by a roadside bomb while riding in a LAV III 75 km west of Kandahar City near the border between Kandahar and Helmand provinces. One other soldier was seriously wounded, another lightly wounded, and two others escaped injury. They were conducting a convoy security operation in support of Operation Achilles. It was the single worst attack on NATO troops since June 2005 and the single costliest day of combat for Canadian troops since 26 members of the RCR were killed in Korea in 1953.

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