Recipient of Sacrifice Medal (posthumous)
Private, infantry rifleman with the 3e Bataillon, Royal 22e Régiment, based in Valcartier, Québec. Age 23. He was from Longueuil, QC and had two years service in the Canadian Forces.
The first member of the famed Van Doos regiment killed in Afghanistan after deployment just three weeks earlier. He was driving a LAV III light-armoured vehicle when it hit a roadside bomb about 20 km west of Kandahar. The convoy was returning from Kandahar Airfield on a resupply mission to a forward operating base at Ma'sum Ghar.
Sixty-seven soldiers and one diplomat have now died since Canada first sent troops to Afghanistan in 2002.
Pte. Longtin is remembered as a strong, competent soldier who was quiet but had a great sense of humour and was very popular among his peers. He had told his family he was very proud to be with his colleagues in Afghanistan. He is survived by his mother Johanne Larente; father Maurice Longtin and stepmother, Manon Daoust; brother Pte. Benoît Longtin; girlfriend Debby Bédard; and extended family.
Funeral Mass held Monday, August 27, 2007 at Saint-Antoine de Padoue Co-cathedral in Longueuil.
* Sincere thanks to grainne for her kindness in sponsoring this memorial.
Private, infantry rifleman with the 3e Bataillon, Royal 22e Régiment, based in Valcartier, Québec. Age 23. He was from Longueuil, QC and had two years service in the Canadian Forces.
The first member of the famed Van Doos regiment killed in Afghanistan after deployment just three weeks earlier. He was driving a LAV III light-armoured vehicle when it hit a roadside bomb about 20 km west of Kandahar. The convoy was returning from Kandahar Airfield on a resupply mission to a forward operating base at Ma'sum Ghar.
Sixty-seven soldiers and one diplomat have now died since Canada first sent troops to Afghanistan in 2002.
Pte. Longtin is remembered as a strong, competent soldier who was quiet but had a great sense of humour and was very popular among his peers. He had told his family he was very proud to be with his colleagues in Afghanistan. He is survived by his mother Johanne Larente; father Maurice Longtin and stepmother, Manon Daoust; brother Pte. Benoît Longtin; girlfriend Debby Bédard; and extended family.
Funeral Mass held Monday, August 27, 2007 at Saint-Antoine de Padoue Co-cathedral in Longueuil.
* Sincere thanks to grainne for her kindness in sponsoring this memorial.
Recipient of Sacrifice Medal (posthumous)
Private, infantry rifleman with the 3e Bataillon, Royal 22e Régiment, based in Valcartier, Québec. Age 23. He was from Longueuil, QC and had two years service in the Canadian Forces.
The first member of the famed Van Doos regiment killed in Afghanistan after deployment just three weeks earlier. He was driving a LAV III light-armoured vehicle when it hit a roadside bomb about 20 km west of Kandahar. The convoy was returning from Kandahar Airfield on a resupply mission to a forward operating base at Ma'sum Ghar.
Sixty-seven soldiers and one diplomat have now died since Canada first sent troops to Afghanistan in 2002.
Pte. Longtin is remembered as a strong, competent soldier who was quiet but had a great sense of humour and was very popular among his peers. He had told his family he was very proud to be with his colleagues in Afghanistan. He is survived by his mother Johanne Larente; father Maurice Longtin and stepmother, Manon Daoust; brother Pte. Benoît Longtin; girlfriend Debby Bédard; and extended family.
Funeral Mass held Monday, August 27, 2007 at Saint-Antoine de Padoue Co-cathedral in Longueuil.
* Sincere thanks to grainne for her kindness in sponsoring this memorial.
Private, infantry rifleman with the 3e Bataillon, Royal 22e Régiment, based in Valcartier, Québec. Age 23. He was from Longueuil, QC and had two years service in the Canadian Forces.
The first member of the famed Van Doos regiment killed in Afghanistan after deployment just three weeks earlier. He was driving a LAV III light-armoured vehicle when it hit a roadside bomb about 20 km west of Kandahar. The convoy was returning from Kandahar Airfield on a resupply mission to a forward operating base at Ma'sum Ghar.
Sixty-seven soldiers and one diplomat have now died since Canada first sent troops to Afghanistan in 2002.
Pte. Longtin is remembered as a strong, competent soldier who was quiet but had a great sense of humour and was very popular among his peers. He had told his family he was very proud to be with his colleagues in Afghanistan. He is survived by his mother Johanne Larente; father Maurice Longtin and stepmother, Manon Daoust; brother Pte. Benoît Longtin; girlfriend Debby Bédard; and extended family.
Funeral Mass held Monday, August 27, 2007 at Saint-Antoine de Padoue Co-cathedral in Longueuil.
* Sincere thanks to grainne for her kindness in sponsoring this memorial.
