Hometown Saskatoon and member of Military Police Detachment, based in Dundurn, Saskatchewan.
Brendan Anthony Downey was born on June 26th, 1972 in Montreal, and raised in Toronto.
Downey joined the military in response to attacks on 9/11.
After graduating from military police academy, he was posted at Cold Lake, Alberta and transferred to Dundurn in 2007.
Downey was an instructor in the Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) program, which gives children presentations about staying away from drugs.
Cpl. Downey died on July 4th, 2008 at 36-years-old. His body was found in the living quarters of Camp Mirage, a secret desert base at an undisclosed Gulf location used to stage Canadian airlifts to Afghanistan. Camp Mirage was not in the war zone, but was located in a friendly Arab state that does not want to officially acknowledge it was helping the west in the Afghanistan conflict.
His death is considered a non-combat causality and enemy action was ruled out. The investigation was turned over to the National Investigation Service. There have been four unspecified Canadian deaths in the Afghanistan War.
At the time, his pregnant wife, Cpl. Vanessa Downey and a two-year-old son were living in Saskatoon.
His family said he will be remembered as a loving father and devoted husband.
Fallen Saskatchewan soldiers in Afghanistan.
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