He was one of the six ICRC delegates who chose to stay in the country during the 2003 Iraq war and continue helping local relief workers.
He was killed by gunfire in Baghdad while travelling with two local Red Cross workers, who were able to escape.
He worked for the Canadian military for a number of years and moved to Oromocto, New Brunswick when he was transferred to CFB Gagetown to serve as captain at the artillery school.
He did his first overseas work with the ICRC in 2000, when he served as a logistician in the former Soviet Union republic of Georgia.
Balthasar Staehelin, ICRC delegate-general for the Middle East and North Africa, said "the courageous decision by six ICRC expatriates to stay in Baghdad voluntarily and work alongside their local colleagues during the worst of the fighting made a marked difference to the lives of thousands of people.