Rememberance Day 2010

The number of Canadian Forces' fatalities resulting from Canadian military activities in Afghanistan is the largest for any single Canadian military mission since the Korean War between 1950 and 1953. A total of 152 Canadian Forces personnel have been killed in the war since 2002. (Click on Title above "Remembrance Day 2010")

September 18, 2006
Pte. David Byers, Cpl. Shane Keating and Cpl. Keith Morley, all of 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry based in Shilo, Man., and Cpl. Glen Arnold, 2 Field Ambulance, based in Petawawa, Ont., killed in suicide bicycle bomb attack while on foot patrol in Panjwaii.


(Della) The Mother of Keith Morley said "In many ways, he grew up an average Canadian boy, but he was far from ordinary," Della Morley said to reporters outside the family home before a private memorial service in the afternoon.

She said her son was someone who deeply cared for his family.

"Children were drawn to him. He could so easily have been one of them. He loved his dog … and laughed at his puppy antics. Keith always found the perfect gift for each and every one of us."'Served with pride and certainty'

Morley, was with the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Shilo, Man.

Morley's casket returned to Winnipeg on Sept. 23 on what would have been his 31st birthday.

Della Morley said her son first expressed interest in joining the Armed Forces in junior high school. Before going to Afghanistan, he served two tours in Bosnia, in 2001 and 2003.

"He served his country with pride and certainty that missions there and in Afghanistan would better the lives of the people in those troubled nations," she said. Friends of Keith facebook www.facebook.com/posted.php?id=19630877544

We will remember them... we will remember them.