This memorial was unveiled on 2 October 2015 in honour of Private Richard Green, who was killed in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan on the night of 17 April 2002. Private Green and three other soldiers from Alpha Company of 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry were killed, and eight others injured, from a bomb dropped on them by a formation of two United States Air Force F-16 fighter aircraft. The Canadian Forces soldiers were conducting a night live-fire training exercise at a place known as the Tarnak Farm, located about 15 kilometers from the Kandahar airfield and base in Afghanistan.
The three other soldiers killed were: Corporal Ainsworth Dyer, age 24, from Montreal, Quebec; Private Nathan Lloyd Smith, age 27, from Porters Lake, Nova Scotia; and Sergeant Marc D. Leger, age 29, from Lancaster, Ontario.
