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Cpl Daniel Gunther ( 13 January 1969 - 1993 ) was a Canadian serving with the Royal 22e Régiment in Bosnia , attached to the UN Protection Force . He was killed in 1993, but reports about his death varied, causing controversy. The army originally stated that he had been hit by a Mortar while exiting his M113 , but Peter Worthington of the '' Toronto Sun '' later brought the accounts of soldiers into the public eye, stating that it was an anti-tank Rocket that had killed Gunther, implying it had not been a simple misfortune, but a deliberately aimed warhead that killed the Corporal driving a marked UN Peacekeeping vehicle. He was posthumously awarded the Canadian Peacekeeping Service Medal , and was mentioned in Roméo Dallaire 's award-winning novel Shake Hands With The Devil . Canada didn't lose another soldier to hostile fire after Gunther's 1993 death until Cpl Jamie Murphy was killed in Afghanistan in 2004. |
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