RIP Lt. Andrew Nuttall
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RIP Sir 
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Rest in peace Sir, for a job done well. My most sincere condolences to his family, friends and the Regiment. Ubique
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Media Advisory
Our Fallen Comrade Returns Home
LFCA MA 09-19 - December 27, 2009
OTTAWA – Our fallen comrade, Lieutenant Andrew R. Nuttall from the1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton, Alberta, returns home to Canada tomorrow.
Where: 8 Wing, Canadian Forces Base Trenton, Ontario.
When: Monday, December 28, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
What: At the request of the family, media will be permitted on the tarmac.
Present to pay their respects will be Her Excellency The Governor General of Canada, The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Minister of National Defence, The Honourable Peter MacKay, Chief of Defence Staff, General Walt Natynczyk, and other dignitaries.
Lieutenant Nuttall was killed by an improvised explosive device that detonated during a foot patrol near the village of Nakhonay in Panjwaii District, about 25 km southwest of Kandahar City, on December 23, 2009. The explosion also killed a member of the Afghan National Army and injured an Afghan interpreter.
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Note to Editors/News Directors:
Interested media may contact Captain Mark Peebles, 8 Wing/CFB Trenton Public Affairs Officer, who can be reached at (613) 392-2811, ext. 2041, or mobile 613-243-6358, or at: peebles.m@forces.gc.ca
For general queries, please contact the Media Liaison Office at 1-866-377-0811 or 613-996-2353. For flight information, please contact the Air Passenger Terminal at 1-800-487-1186.
Our Fallen Comrade Returns Home
LFCA MA 09-19 - December 27, 2009
OTTAWA – Our fallen comrade, Lieutenant Andrew R. Nuttall from the1st Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, based in Edmonton, Alberta, returns home to Canada tomorrow.
Where: 8 Wing, Canadian Forces Base Trenton, Ontario.
When: Monday, December 28, 2009 at 2:00 p.m.
What: At the request of the family, media will be permitted on the tarmac.
Present to pay their respects will be Her Excellency The Governor General of Canada, The Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Minister of National Defence, The Honourable Peter MacKay, Chief of Defence Staff, General Walt Natynczyk, and other dignitaries.
Lieutenant Nuttall was killed by an improvised explosive device that detonated during a foot patrol near the village of Nakhonay in Panjwaii District, about 25 km southwest of Kandahar City, on December 23, 2009. The explosion also killed a member of the Afghan National Army and injured an Afghan interpreter.
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Note to Editors/News Directors:
Interested media may contact Captain Mark Peebles, 8 Wing/CFB Trenton Public Affairs Officer, who can be reached at (613) 392-2811, ext. 2041, or mobile 613-243-6358, or at: peebles.m@forces.gc.ca
For general queries, please contact the Media Liaison Office at 1-866-377-0811 or 613-996-2353. For flight information, please contact the Air Passenger Terminal at 1-800-487-1186.
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Funeral is set for Monday according to this article Public funeral planned for Victoria soldier killed in Afghanistan
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A Funeral Service will be held at Christ Church Cathedral, Quadra at Courtney Street on Monday, January 4, 2010 at 1:00 pm. Interment will follow at Royal Oak Burial Park.
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A Funeral Service will be held at Christ Church Cathedral, Quadra at Courtney Street on Monday, January 4, 2010 at 1:00 pm. Interment will follow at Royal Oak Burial Park.
While this thread has been inactive for a long time, I think the following story from today's Ottawa Citizen is an appropriate reason to reactivate it. The story is reproduced under the Fair Comment provisions of the Copyright Act.
I would like to add that times have really changed in the CF. In the bad not too old days by Treasury Board direction, there would be no support to memorial services or military funerals if costs would be incurred for travel, accommodation or meals.
Paying tribute to a fallen hero
By Matthew Pearson, The Ottawa Citizen August 23, 2010 7:03 AM
Judy Davies, with her daughter Meredith, holds a photo of her nephew, Lt. Andrew Nuttall. A laminated map of British Columbia is spread out on the kitchen table.
Judy Davies locates Williams Lake, a rough-and-tumble cowboy town in the province’s interior, drags her finger west toward the coast and settles on a dot called Alexis Creek.
It was here Davies attended a memorial service for her nephew, Lt. Andrew Nuttall, who died in Afghanistan late last year.
For three days in July, Davies and two of her three daughters lived, laughed and grieved alongside members of Nuttall’s platoon who had gathered on his family’s ranch to finish a job the young soldier never got a chance to start.
The story begins as these stories often do — with a phone call full of bad news.
It was two days before Christmas and Davies was preparing for the holidays. Nuttall, her 30-year-old nephew, had deployed to Afghanistan in October. He was a member of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry D company 12th platoon.
Davies and her daughters had been reading his regular blog posts and knew he was working out of the forward operating bases near the violent Panjwaii district.
“Every time my sister (Nuttall’s mother, Jane) would call, I was anxious something might have happened to him,” Davies says.
The phone call Dec. 23 made real her worst fear: Nuttall was killed by a roadside bomb while leading his platoon on a foot patrol. He was the 134th Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan.
“We were just shattered,” Davies says. “We were in total disbelief.” They prayed it was some kind of mistake, but news reports soon confirmed otherwise.
Nuttall’s death cast a pall over Christmas and the days that followed.
Davies, her three daughters and other members of the extended family went to Trenton to attend the ramp ceremony. They met Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean, Defence Minister Peter MacKay and several senior military leaders.
Judy later rode down the Highway of Heroes with Nuttall’s immediate family before flying to Victoria, where she and about 1,000 others attended his funeral.
During the wake, Nuttall’s father, Richard, told a military official about his son’s love of the family’s ranch and his desire to erect a sign at the entrance of the undeveloped land.
If that’s what Andrew wanted, the military official told his father, then that’s what we’ll do.
“The platoon and the people in charge just embraced the idea,” Davies says.
And so it was one morning last month that a convoy from CFB Edmonton — complete with a military heavy-logistic vehicle, a refrigerated truck and a busload of guys from Nuttall’s platoon — arrived at the family’s ranch after driving overnight from Alberta.
They quickly set up a mess hall and small tent city on a flat piece of land.
As Davies’ daughter, Meredith, recalls: “You blinked and the camp was set up.”
The next morning, the sky was clear and bright.
The padre, who had been with the platoon in Afghanistan, led the group in prayer. Five RCMP officers from the local detachment wore their red serge, a First Nations chief gave a traditional blessing, Judy read a poem and several of Nuttall’s platoon members offered personal tributes.
At one point, two guys climbed into the bucket of a cherry-picker and were raised up to hang a sign over the entrance to the family’s property.
“Cayoosh Ranch” — named for the colloquial word some local First Nations people give wild ponies — was carved in wood.
The platoon also unveiled a small stone monument engraved with the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry’s insignia. They laid wreaths, stood for two minutes of silence and fired off a 21-gun salute, which reverberated off the mountains.
Afterwards, there was a barbecue. Some people played soccer or went for a swim in the creek. At night, everyone gathered around a huge bonfire.
For Judy and the rest of her family, it was a chance to get to know some of her nephew’s platoon members, including those who were with him right before his death.
It was they, Judy says, who later had to list and pack up Nuttall’s personal belongings and send them back to Canada after he was injured.
“When someone’s helicoptered out, they know they’re not coming back — they’re either badly injured or they’re killed.”
She adds most of Nuttall’s platoon, while in the theatre of war, had little chance to grieve and couldn’t attend the ramp ceremony at Kandahar Airfield.
Davies says the unique memorial also gave her a chance to be part of something that came to define the final years of her nephew’s life.
An athletic sort, Nuttall had studied engineering in university and worked several jobs in the computer industry before his interest in fitness led him to a job as a personal trainer.
It was in that role that he met several members of the military and became interested in joining himself.
Here was a career that combined his physicality and leadership skills.
“He’d really come into his own,” Judy says. “He’d done a lot of things in his 20s, but three summers ago, I saw him graduate his officer training in St. Jean, Que., and I just saw how this all came together for him.”
The interview ends and Judy lets out a sigh of relief. A special education teacher at Bayshore Public School, she hasn’t done this kind of thing before.
She leads the way to a computer in her den to show some pictures from the memorial.
In one, she and her family are flanked by troops dressed in fatigues, standing beside the newly-raised sign marking the entrance to Cayoosh Ranch.
They had done what they said they would do; what Andrew Nuttall never had a chance to do.
I would like to add that times have really changed in the CF. In the bad not too old days by Treasury Board direction, there would be no support to memorial services or military funerals if costs would be incurred for travel, accommodation or meals.
Paying tribute to a fallen hero
By Matthew Pearson, The Ottawa Citizen August 23, 2010 7:03 AM
Judy Davies, with her daughter Meredith, holds a photo of her nephew, Lt. Andrew Nuttall. A laminated map of British Columbia is spread out on the kitchen table.
Judy Davies locates Williams Lake, a rough-and-tumble cowboy town in the province’s interior, drags her finger west toward the coast and settles on a dot called Alexis Creek.
It was here Davies attended a memorial service for her nephew, Lt. Andrew Nuttall, who died in Afghanistan late last year.
For three days in July, Davies and two of her three daughters lived, laughed and grieved alongside members of Nuttall’s platoon who had gathered on his family’s ranch to finish a job the young soldier never got a chance to start.
The story begins as these stories often do — with a phone call full of bad news.
It was two days before Christmas and Davies was preparing for the holidays. Nuttall, her 30-year-old nephew, had deployed to Afghanistan in October. He was a member of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry D company 12th platoon.
Davies and her daughters had been reading his regular blog posts and knew he was working out of the forward operating bases near the violent Panjwaii district.
“Every time my sister (Nuttall’s mother, Jane) would call, I was anxious something might have happened to him,” Davies says.
The phone call Dec. 23 made real her worst fear: Nuttall was killed by a roadside bomb while leading his platoon on a foot patrol. He was the 134th Canadian soldier to die in Afghanistan.
“We were just shattered,” Davies says. “We were in total disbelief.” They prayed it was some kind of mistake, but news reports soon confirmed otherwise.
Nuttall’s death cast a pall over Christmas and the days that followed.
Davies, her three daughters and other members of the extended family went to Trenton to attend the ramp ceremony. They met Gov. Gen. Michaëlle Jean, Defence Minister Peter MacKay and several senior military leaders.
Judy later rode down the Highway of Heroes with Nuttall’s immediate family before flying to Victoria, where she and about 1,000 others attended his funeral.
During the wake, Nuttall’s father, Richard, told a military official about his son’s love of the family’s ranch and his desire to erect a sign at the entrance of the undeveloped land.
If that’s what Andrew wanted, the military official told his father, then that’s what we’ll do.
“The platoon and the people in charge just embraced the idea,” Davies says.
And so it was one morning last month that a convoy from CFB Edmonton — complete with a military heavy-logistic vehicle, a refrigerated truck and a busload of guys from Nuttall’s platoon — arrived at the family’s ranch after driving overnight from Alberta.
They quickly set up a mess hall and small tent city on a flat piece of land.
As Davies’ daughter, Meredith, recalls: “You blinked and the camp was set up.”
The next morning, the sky was clear and bright.
The padre, who had been with the platoon in Afghanistan, led the group in prayer. Five RCMP officers from the local detachment wore their red serge, a First Nations chief gave a traditional blessing, Judy read a poem and several of Nuttall’s platoon members offered personal tributes.
At one point, two guys climbed into the bucket of a cherry-picker and were raised up to hang a sign over the entrance to the family’s property.
“Cayoosh Ranch” — named for the colloquial word some local First Nations people give wild ponies — was carved in wood.
The platoon also unveiled a small stone monument engraved with the Princess Patricia Canadian Light Infantry’s insignia. They laid wreaths, stood for two minutes of silence and fired off a 21-gun salute, which reverberated off the mountains.
Afterwards, there was a barbecue. Some people played soccer or went for a swim in the creek. At night, everyone gathered around a huge bonfire.
For Judy and the rest of her family, it was a chance to get to know some of her nephew’s platoon members, including those who were with him right before his death.
It was they, Judy says, who later had to list and pack up Nuttall’s personal belongings and send them back to Canada after he was injured.
“When someone’s helicoptered out, they know they’re not coming back — they’re either badly injured or they’re killed.”
She adds most of Nuttall’s platoon, while in the theatre of war, had little chance to grieve and couldn’t attend the ramp ceremony at Kandahar Airfield.
Davies says the unique memorial also gave her a chance to be part of something that came to define the final years of her nephew’s life.
An athletic sort, Nuttall had studied engineering in university and worked several jobs in the computer industry before his interest in fitness led him to a job as a personal trainer.
It was in that role that he met several members of the military and became interested in joining himself.
Here was a career that combined his physicality and leadership skills.
“He’d really come into his own,” Judy says. “He’d done a lot of things in his 20s, but three summers ago, I saw him graduate his officer training in St. Jean, Que., and I just saw how this all came together for him.”
The interview ends and Judy lets out a sigh of relief. A special education teacher at Bayshore Public School, she hasn’t done this kind of thing before.
She leads the way to a computer in her den to show some pictures from the memorial.
In one, she and her family are flanked by troops dressed in fatigues, standing beside the newly-raised sign marking the entrance to Cayoosh Ranch.
They had done what they said they would do; what Andrew Nuttall never had a chance to do.
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