Remembrance Day: A Mississauga man’s WWI experience [Video]

Arthur Luker never saw foreign battlefields, but his photos bear witness to the risks and sacrifices faced even on the homefront in the First World War.

Arthur grew up in Lorne Park and worked as a chauffeur and mechanic during The Great War — what we now know as World War I — was the first war to use planes for reconnaissance.

Arthur joined the Royal Flying Corps in 1917 at age 28, serving as a mechanic at Base Borden and Deseronto in Ontario, as well as in Texas.

Lucky for us, Arthur became interested in photography at a young age. Almost a thousand of his images are preserved at the Peel Archives, available for viewing in the Reading Room.

Here’s a look at a few images from his time as an enlisted man.

Luker would have been assigned a bunk at the bases. As seen here, there was very …