Cpl Christopher Deliva - 5 Svc Bn - 28 May 2007

[GAP]

CTV news has just announced the death of a soldier at Wainwright....no links up yet at CTV or CBC.




Edited by Vern to correct typo in the topic title - and Good2Golf to add Cpl Deliva's name to title

 

[Michael OLeary]

LINK

Soldier killed in crash at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright
May, 28 2007 - 7:30 PM

WAINWRIGHT - A Quebec-based soldier has been killed at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright.
 
The soldier died this morning in a training area of the base in a single-vehicle collision.
 
Military officials said, in a news release, the soldier had been assisting with the return of vehicles and equipment to Quebec following a month-long exercise.

Military police are investigating the circumstances of the incident.

The name of the soldier has not been released pending notification of next of kin.

- Broadcast News

 

[geo]

Darn!

For this to happen after all the planning, training & preparing.
Just when everyone is ready to take a little bit of R&R prior to deploying...
This happens - a lousy vehicle accident!

This sucks!

My condolences to Family & firends!

At the going down of the sun,
and in the morn!
We will remember them!

   

CHIMO!

 

[safeboy43]

R.I.P troop. We will never forget 

 

[medic149]

R.I.P 

 

[The Bread Guy]

Condolences to family, colleagues and friends....

 

[DELTA108]

R.I.P 

 

[armyvern]

My thoughts to the family and friends of Cpl Deliva and the members of 5 Svc Bn in their time of loss.

An update:

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CBC Article Link

Quebec soldier dies in rollover at Alberta base
Last Updated: Tuesday, May 29, 2007 | 4:53 PM ET
The Canadian Press

A Quebec-based soldier was killed in a single-vehicle rollover accident Monday at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright.

The soldier had been deployed from the base in Valcartier, Que., to help with the return of vehicles and equipment after a month-long training exercise, said Capt. Tom St. Denis, public affairs officer at the Canadian Manoeuvre Training Centre.

"My understanding is he was the sole occupant of the vehicle," said St. Denis. "It was just an accident and he was killed."

Cpl. Christopher Deliva, 27, of Quebec City had been deployed from the base in Valcartier to work temporarily at CFB Wainwright.

Capt. Mathieu Dufour of CFB Valcartier identified Deliva as a member of 5 Battalion Services of Canada.

"He was contributing to bringing out vehicles and equipment that were used for the previous month of training," said Dufour. "We don't exactly know what was the cause [of the accident]."

Dufour said the soldier had been driving a 10-tonne truck. He was pronounced dead at hospital.

St. Denis said 2,500 soldiers had been training for their rotation into Afghanistan in the summer.

"They'd been here since mid-April but they had finished up their exercise," he said. "Most of those people were on their way out, and to assist in getting the equipment back, a unit in Valcartier had sent some other soldiers here, after the exercise, to help move the stuff back. He was one of that group."

Military police are investigating the death.

In September of 2006, a British army soldier was killed when a British military vehicle rolled on the Trans-Canada Highway near Bassano in southern Alberta.

Mathew John Murray of Tidworth, England, died after the bus lost control en route to a training exercise.

Earlier this month, a soldier suffered at least two gunshot wounds during a live-fire training exercise at CFB Shilo.

 

[Good2Golf]

Condolences to Cpl Deliva's family, friends and fellow soldiers.

Pro Patria 

G2G

 

[Good2Golf]

Condolences for Cpl Deliva can be posted here.  Further information can be added to this thread.

Army.ca Staff

 

[gabby]

R.I.P Deliva....you were a great guy...you will be missed.  My condolences to Cpl Deliva's family.

 

[niner domestic]

"In the golden peace-time you will tell the story
How for you and yours, sweet, bitter deaths were ours. . . .
God bless little children!" So he passed to glory,
So we left him sleeping, still amid the flow'rs.


We Will Remember

(Our Hero, by Rober Service, 1916)

 

[AndrewB2020]

My condolences to  family and friends.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Accidental Death of a Soldier from Valcartier
CF News release, 29 May 07
Article link

VALCARTIER, QC, May 29 /CNW Telbec/ - Corporal Christopher Deliva has died as the result of an accident that occurred at Canadian Forces Base Wainwright, Alberta, on Monday, May 28 at 1:30 p.m. (Quebec time).

The exact circumstances of the accident are not yet known. Cpl Deliva was driving alone in a 10-tonne truck when the vehicle flipped over while rounding a curve. Emergency care was administered at the scene of the accident, but Cpl Deliva died in hospital at 2:00 p.m.

The late Cpl Deliva was part of a technical logistic assistance team taking part in training for Joint Task Force Afghanistan that had been underway at Wainwright for the past month. The team's role is to assist the Task Force in managing the equipment used for the training and ensure its return to Valcartier. Cpl Deliva was not part of the group of soldiers scheduled to leave for Afghanistan in July.

Cpl Deliva, 27, was single. He had enrolled in the CF in September 2000 and was a member of 5 Canadian Service Battalion, based at Valcartier.  He was born in Montreal and had lived in Quebec City since 2001.

"Our thoughts are with the family, as shown by the many written messages I have received from his brothers and sisters in arms, which I am sending to his family today," said Lieutenant-Colonel Nicolas Eldaoud, Commanding Officer of 5 Canadian Service Battalion.

Cpl Deliva's immediate family have been notified. The family does not wish to make any statement at this time, and they ask that their privacy be respected.

An investigation into the causes of the accident is being conducted by military police at CFB Wainwright.

 

[teddybear]

RIP soldier 

 

[Mike Baker]

RIP   

 

[nihilpavor]

R.I.P 

http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/May2007/31/c7371.html

 

[BernDawg]

RIP Troop.