Other Canadian Female Military Casualties
- Trooper Karine Blais, 21, of Les Méchins, Québec was the second female Canadian combat soldier to be killed in combat on April 13, 2009, when the armoured vehicle she rode in hit an improvised explosive device in the Shah Wali Kot district, north of Kandahar.
- Master Cpl. Kristal Giesebrecht, 34, of Wallaceburg, Ontario was the third female Canadian combat soldier to be killed in combat on June 26, 2010, when the armoured vehicle she rode in hit an improvised explosive device 20 kilometres southwest of Kandahar.
- Forty-three women in the Canadian military died in the First World War – 29 in enemy action on the Western Front. Seventy-one female members of the Canadian Forces died in the Second World War, including five combat-related deaths – four during the bombing of London and one when a German U-boat sank the SS Caribou. There were no women military casualties in the Korea War.
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