![]() Sankar, along with Grade 8 students Henry Lane and Ava Kassam, have been researching Barker as part of a project to make sure war heroes like him are not forgotten. Outside Hodgeson Middle School in Toronto on Thursday, Grade 7 student Jerimiah Sankar said, "I think, William Barker to me, he's a hero." Once he was in the sky, Barker set a record of 46 enemy aircraft shot down. "If you fought against William Barker in combat, you were very likely to be shot down and you were rather likely to die," says Wayne Ralph, author of the book 'Barker VC: Canada's Decorated War Hero.'īarker grew up on a farm in Manitoba, joining the army in 1914 as a machine gunner and learning to fly during the war. ![]() ![]() Wing Commander Willam Barker, a pilot known as the best ace in the First World War. He is the most decorated war hero in Canadian history, but few know his name.
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