Veterans’ Service Recognition Book – Volume 20 40 Sgt. Mark Charles Gallagher RCMP Regimental Number 46470 September 2,1959 - January 12, 2010 Sgt. Gallagher was deployed July 7, 2009 on a nine-month tour of duty to Port-au-Prince, Haiti as one of many RCMP members participating in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Project Coordination). On January 12, 2010, within hours of returning from a Christmas break, a powerful earthquake struck close to Port-au-Prince resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of residents. Sgt. Gallagher was killed when the structure he was within collapsed around him. Sgt. Gallagher, originally from New Brunswick, was a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police posted at ‘H’ Division, in Halifax, NS. He also served in New Brunswick. Four years after his death, a Vocational School bearing his name (École Professionnelle du Mark Gallagher), was constructed to Canadian Standards for seismic resistance in a suburb of Port-au-Prince. It replaced one that collapsed during the earthquake taking the lives of 150 students and 4 teaching sisters. Nova Scotia RCMP Veterans’ Association Lest We Forget
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