The repatriation will take place Friday (Nov. 20) for John Robert Gallagher.
Gallagher, who was from Wheatley, died while fighting the Islamic State group in Syria earlier this month.
“He thought this was such an important fight and he has always been a man of principle, who believed very strongly in human rights and justice,” wrote Gallagher’s mother Valerie on Facebook. “I am very, very proud of him and his sisters and I love him very much.”
Gallagher had been volunteering on the peshmerga Kurdish Forces’ front lines in the fight against ISIS.
He was a former infantryman with the 2nd Battalion of the Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
The procession on Friday will start in Toronto, before concluding in Blenheim.
The Canadian Heroes organization says the form up will be at Mackinnon & Bowes Funeral Home, at 162 Wicksteed Avenue, Toronto, with the planned departure at 12 p.m. sharp.
From there they will be travel westbound on Hwy. 401.
They will have planned rest stops at the Onroute service centres on Hwy 401 westbound in Cambridge and West Lorne.
The Canadian Heroes 120-foot long kite will be flying high in the sky at the Cambridge Onroute location.
The procession will then be exiting on Hwy 40 and heading south to Blenheim on Communication Road, to Blenheim. It will then turn right on Talbot Road, then left on Catherine before driving by the Royal Canadian Legion.
They will then turn left on Marlborough Street, and then right on Stanley to the Blenheim Community Funeral Home.
The Chatham-Kent Police Service and Chatham-Kent Fire Department will provide an honour guard at the funeral home.
People are being encouraged to line the bridges over Highway 401 between Toronto and Chatham-Kent for a Highway of Heroes ceremony.
A public ceremony will take place in Toronto at a later date.
– Photo from Facebook
