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In memory of:

Master Warrant Officer Mario Michel Christian Mercier

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Citation(s);

Military service

Age: 43
Rank: Master Warrant Officer
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Royal 22nd Regiment
Division: 3rd Bn
Birth: March 5, 1964 Weedon, Québec
Enlistment: July 18, 1984 Québec
Death: August 22, 2007 Afghanistan
Additional information

Husband of Lucie Ardouin. Father of Maude, Simon and Myriam Mercier.

Additional citations

Sacrifice Medal (posthumous), Canadian Forces Decoration, Meritorious Service Cross, (Military Division),

"Master Warrant Officer Mercier was deployed as regimental sergeant major from September 2006 to August 2007. Displaying leadership and devotion to duty, he prepared his soldiers for the challenges they would face in Afghanistan, and inspired them as they went into battle. Sadly, Master Warrant Officer made the ultimate sacrifice when he succumbed to injuries sustained by an explosion from a roadside bomb."

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 226 of the In the Service of Canada, Vol. I (1947 – 2014) Book of Remembrance.
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