Afghanistan-Iraq War Memorial - Fairview Cemetery - Lacombe, Alberta
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N 52° 28.609 W 113° 43.212
12U E 315265 N 5817552
Fairview Cemetery is north of Hwy. 12. and west of Hwy. 2A.
Waymark Code: WMZ322
Location: Alberta, Canada
Date Posted: 09/03/2018
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Fairview Cemetery is also known as Lacombe Cemetery. It is a large cemetery maintained by the town of Lacombe. There are approximately 5,554 known interments. Fairview cemetery was established in the early 1900s.
Within the cemetery is a Veteran's section and two memorials. There is a LAV III that has been fully decommissioned and is now proudly displayed in the Field of Honor. This memorial is in honor of those who served in the Canadian Armed Forces and the 162 soldiers that died in Afghanistan.
The monument is three-foot-wide and five-and-a-half-foot tall with names on both sides. The list starts with those who died in a chronological order on the front side and carries on to the back. The very last name – Greff – is engraved in gold.
Byron Greff, 28, was in the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and part of a NATO convoy attacked by a suicide bomber on Oct. 29, 2011. Lacombe’s Master Cpl. Byron Greff was the last Canadian killed in Afghanistan in 2011. There were 16 others that died in the explosion.
In recognition and memory of the efforts of approximately
40,000 Canadian Armed Forces personnel who served and
the 162 who died in the cause of bringing peace
and freedom to the people of Afghanistan.
2001 - 2014
En mémoire et en reconnaissance des efforts des quelque
40,000 membres des Forces armérd canadiennes qui ont
servi en Afghanistan et des 162 Canadiens qui sont morts
pour la cause de la paix et de la liberté du peuple afghan.
