Motorcade Escorts Remains of Soldier Killed at CFB Wainwright to B.C. Funeral Home
Police and firefighters saluted as the hearse carried the 23-year-old soldier’s remains to a New Westminster funeral home after a fatal training fire.
- On Wednesday, a motorcade escorted the remains of Pte. Aidan Goulding from Vancouver International Airport to a funeral home in New Westminster, with police and firefighters standing at attention and saluting as the hearse passed.
- Goulding, 23, was one of four soldiers killed on Oct. 17 during a live-fire training exercise at CFB Wainwright, Alberta, when a grass fire driven by ferocious winds overwhelmed the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry.
- Vancouver Police Department veteran Ray Gardner said Goulding "mattered to the country," while Fire Chief Jim Wishlove of Richmond Fire-Rescue noted first responders from Metro Vancouver gathered to honor the fallen soldiers.
- Brennan MacLachlan, a Canadian Armed Forces reservist and emergency programs manager for the City of Richmond, stated "But we stand with them" after the motorcade passed, while Pte. Shaun Farrell's funeral was held in Saskatchewan on Wednesday.
- The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service, supported by the RCMP, leads the ongoing investigation with 50 investigators on the ground working to determine the cause of the fire that killed four soldiers.
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Motorcade escorts remains of soldier killed at CFB Wainwright to B.C. funeral home - Fort St. James Caledonia Courier
The remains of Pte. Aidan Goulding, who was killed in the fire at CFB Wainwright last month, arrived in Vancouver Wednesday. A motorcade excorted the hearse as it left Vancouver International Airport and headed to a funeral home in New Westminster on Nov. 4. Media were invited to the motorcade at the request of Goulding’s family. Goulding, who was from North Vancouver, was one of four people killed in the fire on Oct. 17. Thirty-nine others were…
Motorcade escorts remains of soldier killed at CFB Wainwright to B.C. funeral home - Vanderhoof Omineca Express
The remains of Pte. Aidan Goulding, who was killed in the fire at CFB Wainwright last month, arrived in Vancouver Wednesday. A motorcade excorted the hearse as it left Vancouver International Airport and headed to a funeral home in New Westminster on Nov. 4. Media were invited to the motorcade at the request of Goulding’s family. Goulding, who was from North Vancouver, was one of four people killed in the fire on Oct. 17. Thirty-nine others were…
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