Sgt. Gallagher returned to Canada
Posted Jan 22, 2010 04:23:32 PM.
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After a ramp ceremony in Port-au-Prince, Haiti attended by more than 200 people, the body of Sergeant Mark Gallagher is back on Canadian soil.
Sgt. Gallagher and Supt. Doug Coates were returned to Canadian Forces Base Trenton in eastern Ontario at around 5:00 p.m. Atlantic time.
Mounties dressed in scarlet uniforms helped carry the bodies to waiting hearses.
Gallagher worked his entire career in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, and was well-known as an RCMP spokesperson.
He was in Port-au-Prince as part of a UN training force when the
earthquake hit.
His body was found last Thursday buried in the rubble of an apartment building; his funeral will be held in Woodstock but no date has been announced.
Coates was the most senior RCMP officer in Haiti and had devoted
much of his career to making the island country a more peaceful and
stable place.
