This memorial was dedicated on 16 September 2018 in honour of Sergeant Marc D. Leger, who was killed in a friendly fire incident in Afghanistan on the night of 17 April 2002. Sergeant Leger 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 Richard Green, age 21, from Mill Cove, Nova Scotia; and Private Nathan Lloyd Smith, age 27, from Porters Lake, Nova Scotia.
