CFB TRENTON, Ont. - The remains of four Canadian soldiers killed in two separate bomb attacks in Afghanistan on Friday will return home on Monday.
A military plane carrying four flag-draped caskets will arrive at CFB Trenton in eastern Ontario at 2 p.m. for a repatriation ceremony.
Gov. Gen Michaelle Jean and Defence Minister Peter MacKay are expected to be among the dignitaries standing alongside the soldiers' families on the tarmac.
The ceremony will honour Master Cpl. Scott Vernelli, Cpl. Tyler Crooks - both of November Company, 3rd Battalion, Royal Canadian Regiment battle group - and Trooper Jack Bouthillier and Trooper Corey Hayes, of the Royal Canadian Dragoons.
The attack that killed Vernelli and Crooks took place in Zhari district, west of Kandahar city, where they were in the final stages of clearing out of a village and about to sit down with local elders when a soldier set off a booby trap.
Bouthillier and Hayes died when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Shah Wali Kot, northeast of the city.
