Simon Mailloux
| Simon Mailloux | |
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| Born |
2 November 1983 Quebec City, Quebec, Canada |
| Service/branch | Canadian Army |
| Rank | Captain |
| Unit | Royal 22nd Regiment |
| Battles/wars | War in Afghanistan (2001–present) |
| Spouse(s) | Kari Pries |
Captain Simon Mailloux (born November 2, 1983) is a serving officer in the Canadian Forces. He was severely injured on 16 November 2007 in an IED incident in Afghanistan and, as a result, his left leg was amputated. In November 2009, Mailloux redeployed to Afghanistan becoming the first Canadian amputee to deploy to a war zone as a combatant.
Born in 1983 and raised in Quebec City, Quebec, he is an alumnus of the Royal Military College of Canada (RMC) and the University of Glasgow. During the summer of 2005, he received an international exchange scholarship from the Canada Corps initiative launched by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada on behalf of the Canadian International Development Agency. His research took place at the École de Maintien de la Paix, of Kulikovo, and the Institut de Recherche sur le Développement, of Bamako in Mali during four months.
Upon graduation, he was posted to the 3e Bataillon Royal 22e Régiment in Valcartier, Quebec and quickly joined the deploying formation as a platoon commander. Mailloux was injured by an IED explosion on 16 November 2007 which killed two soldiers, an interpreter and wounded several others. Mailloux underwent several surgeries and months of rehabilitation. Following this, he was appointed Aide de Camp to the Governor General of Canada at Rideau Hall in Ottawa and participated in the Presidential visit of Barack Obama to Ottawa, the 2009 visit to Haïti and the Emperor and Empress of Japan visit to Canada. In 2009, he joined the Task Force Kandahar Headquarters as a Brigade staff and later worked as a staff with the Counter-IED Task Force in Ottawa. In 2013, he was appointed as one of the honorary Aide-de-Camp to the Quebec Lieutenant-Governor.
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