Arthur, a single farmer, enlisted with the 136th Overseas Batallion 08 November 1915 in Port Hope. He was in France by 12 December 1916 with the 87th Infantry Battalion. He was injured numerous times on the battlefield. His first was 10 April 1917 at Boulogne, when he received a "severe" gunshot wound to his right hip. The most debilitating battlefield injury is described in the image below, from his military file.

As a result of losing his right eye to shrapnel, he was declared medically unfit for service, with a pensionable disabilty due to service, and discharged 11 July 1919 in Kingston.

On 20 April 1921, Arthur, a 31-year-old bachelor of Hope Township, married widowed Beatrice Maud Hood of Toronto, 28-year-old daughter of William Booth and Annie Cookson, at St. John's Anglican Church in Port Hope, Rev. James A. Elliott officiating.

As criticised in a 1923 newspaper clipping (image above right), his military service was not respected by the local Public School Board when he applied for a job.

At his 10 November 1935 death from turberculosis at the Weston Hospital for Consumptives, where he had been for over a year, he was described as an unemployed truck driver. His death registration states that he was buried in Port Hope by AW George & Son, but no burial site is recorded.

Arthur is listed in the 1919 Book of Remembrance.