Honour Roll (W)

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

Trooper Mark Andrew Wilson, 36
Royal Canadian Dragoons
Killed in Action in Panjwaii district, west of Kandahar on October 7, 2006
Hometown: London, Ontario

Trooper Wilson was a gunner inside a Nyala RG-31 on patrol when the vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. He died of his injuries shortly thereafter.

Trooper Wilson was the 40th Canadian soldier Killed in Afghanistan and the first ever London, Ontario native soldier to be buried in his home town. All of London’s previous war dead, in more than a century and a half of service history, had been buried overseas in theatre. His funeral Mass was held at Mary Immaculate Church, in London, on October 16, 2006. He left behind a widow and two sons, aged 11 and 17.

Trooper Wilson’t length of service in not known at this time.

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