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Cpl Tyler Crooks internent, Niagara Branch.

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  Funeral services for fallen soldier Thursday

Public can watch video feed of Cpl. Crook's services at Lakeshore Catholic High School

Posted By MARK TAYTI/Tribune Staff
   

PORT COLBORNE — High-ranking members of the Canadian Forces will attend funeral services Thursday for Port Colborne soldier Cpl. Tyler Crooks.

The service gets underway at First Lutheran Church on Elm St. in Port Colborne at 1 p.m.

It is for family members, friends of the family and “official mourners” only, said Capt. Scott Costen, public affairs officer with 31 Canadian Brigade Group.

Crooks was a member of November Company, 3rd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment based in Petawawa. He was one of four soldiers killed in two separate incidents March 20 in Afghanistan's Kandahar province.

The 24-year-old Crooks and Master Cpl. Scott Vernelli, 28, of Sault Ste. Marie, were killed by an improvised explosive device while on foot patrol in the Zhari district. Crooks and Vernelli, along with other soldiers, were in the final stages of clearing out a village and about to sit down with local elders when a soldier set off a booby trap.

One local interpreter was killed and one was injured in the attack, reported the Canadian Forces.

Trooper Jack Bouthillier of Hearst, Ont., and Trooper Corey Joseph Hayes, of New Brunswick, of The Royal Canadian Dragoons, were killed just hours later when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in the Shah Wali Kot district, a region northwest of the city. Eight other soldiers were injured in the two blasts.

Costen said he expects about 400 people will attend Thursday's funeral service at the church.

The public has an opportunity to watch a live video feed of the funeral service at Lakeshore Catholic High School at 150 Janet St.

"Members of the media are excluded from both locations at the request of the family,” Costen said. The media is allowed to observe the funeral procession as it enters and exits the church.

Military officials in attendance are to include Brig.-Gen. John Collin, commander of land forces central area; Col. Dean Milner, commander of 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group; Maj. Mike Percy, acting commanding officer of the 3rd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment and Lt.-Col. Matt Richardson of the Lincoln and Welland Regiment.

Costen said at least 40 members of the 3rd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment are expected to attend.

Army reserve units are also expected to be in attendance, Costen added.

There will be a short procession from Davidson Funeral Homes on Clarence St. to the church led by a Niagara Regional Police escort.

A “bearer party” consisting of military personnel will carry the body of Cpl. Crooks into the church while a military guard salutes the fallen soldier.

The service will be led by Rev. Thomas Arth, who said his message will centre on trying to provide “comfort to the loved ones who are going to be missing Tyler.”

“There is a sadness,”Arth said. “He died way too soon.”

Scriptures will be read and prayers given by Rev. Mike McHugh, chaplain for the Lincoln and Welland Regiment, and Francesca Scorsone, a chaplain from CFB Petawawa.

Arth said about eight people will deliver eulogies at the service. He anticipates the service will take an hour or longer.

The church sanctuary seats about 220 and the church hall – which will have a live video feed – seats another 220. Arth said the Lincoln and Welland Regiment was at the church yesterday dropping off more chairs.

Lakeshore Catholic High School auditorium seats 600.

Arth said text he will be using for the funeral is Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 and John 15.

The funeral procession from the church to the cemetery will travel north on Elm St. to Main St. E., east to Highway 140 and north to 3rd Concession and east to St. Paul’s cemetery in Bethel.

Costen said the interment at St. Paul’s Cemetery is a private ceremony and not intended for members of the general public.
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