Corporal Paul Davis, 28, of Bridgewater N.S., was killed in Afghanistan March 2, 2006 when his armoured vehicle flipped over near Kandahar. The father of two young children, was offered a promotion that would have kept him out of harm's way. His father, Jim Davis, explained "He had the sense of duty of comradeship with the people he'd been training with, and felt he wanted to go with them."

In 2007 a project was undertaken to train a mine detection dog (MDD) named 'Paul'. The MDD will be deployed in Afghanistan.

Major donors to this effort were:

• Rotary District 7090
  
• Rotary Clubs across Canada