Wafa Dabbagh

Wafa Dabbagh (died 5 June 2012) was a Canadian military officer.

[1] Born to a Palestinian family in Egypt and raised in Kuwait, Dabbagh emigrated to Canada and joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1996 after "accidentally wandering into a recruiting office in Windsor".

[2] She served with the naval reserves and was a participant in Operation Proteus in 2007, a mission to train security forces in Palestine.

She attained the rank of lieutenant-commander, but was prevented from seeking promotion to command by a cancer diagnosis in 2010.

Shortly before her death she received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal.