I became interested in Lieutenant Colonel William Barker's story as a young boy growing up in Nepean when I read a popular history book called Knights of the Air which talked about the great first world war aces like Bishop and Barker.
Je me suis intéressé à l'histoire du lieutenant-colonel William Barker lorsque, jeune garçon à Nepean, j'ai lu un livre d'histoire populaire intitulé Knights of the Air, qui parlait des grands as-pilotes de la Première Guerre mondiale comme Bishop et Barker.