Ainsworth Dyer
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Corporal Ainsworth Dyer (July 29, 1977 – April 17, 2002) was one of 4 Canadian soldiers killed in a friendly fire incident near Kandahar in Afghanistan (see Tarnak Farm incident).
Dyer was born in Montreal in 1977 and grew up in Toronto. He joined the Canadian Army in October 1997.
He served with Canadian peacekeeping forces in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 2000. He was killed when a laser-guided bomb was dropped on members of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry taking part in a live-fire training exercise.
His mother, Agatha Dyer, was chosen as the Silver Cross Mother for Remembrance Day ceremonies held in Ottawa in 2004.
He was engaged to be married in the year he dies to the beautiful Jocelyn Van Sloten.
Dyer's sister Suzette Wright, 31, said it was difficult not to feel angry about the circumstance of her brother's death. "He should never have died the way he died. If he had died fighting (the enemy) we could have grieved a different way," Wright said.
Dyer, along with three other Canadian soldiers, was killed when a U.S. pilot mistakenly dropped a bomb on them during a live ammunition training exercise. A U.S. military official was among the mourners yesterday.
Dyer's family, friends and colleagues celebrated his exemplary, but short, life and mourned for his lost hopes and dreams; the engineering degree he hoped to pursue while continuing to serve in the military; the beautiful fiancee, Jocelyn Van Sloten, he planned to marry and start a family with.
