Source: Per research by 160th Battalion Facebook Group. Confirmed served with 18th Battalion.
Family Search: When Private Arthur Henry Joshua was born on 29 November 1895, in Canada, his father, Edward Joshua Madwashemind, was 33 and his mother, Eunice James, was 21. He married Edna Simon on 14 February 1916, in Saugeen, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. He lived in Bruce, Ontario, Canada in 1911 and Chippawa Hill, Saugeen 29, Bruce, Ontario, Canada for about 6 years. He registered for military service in 1916. In 1916, at the age of 21, his occupation is listed as labourer in Chippawa Hill, Saugeen 29, Bruce, Ontario, Canada. He died on 19 June 1960, in Southampton, Bruce, Ontario, Canada, at the age of 64, and was buried in Chippawa Hill, Saugeen 29, Bruce, Ontario, Canada.
Indigenous Soldier
Private Arthur Henry Joshua, reg. no. 651993.
This man was enlisted with the 160th Battalion at Southampton, Ontario on 18 March 1916.
He was a labourer and followed the Methodist faith.
He was single and listed his father Mr. Edward Joshua of Chippawa Hill, Ontario, as his next-of-kin. He had no prior military experience.
Arriving at Liverpool England aboard the SS Metagma on 28 October 1917 he was struck off strength with the 160th Battalion and transferred to the 4th Canadian Reserve Battalion at Witley Camp on 23 February 1918 and arrived and was taken on strength with that battalion on 24 February 1918 at Bramshott.
He was isolated in hospital for an unknown reason from 26 December 1916 to 14 January 1917 at Aldershot.
He was transferred to the 18th Battalion on 28 March 1918 and was sent overseas on the next day arriving at 2nd Canadian Infantry Base Depot at Etaples. He was then transferred to the Canadian Corps Reinforcement Camp in 3 April 1918 and then arrived in the field with the 18th on 8 August 1918.
He was wounded with “gun shot wounds” on 26 August 1918 with a shell wound to the face and invalided to England for care, transiting the English Channel aboard the AT Princess Elizabeth. This wounding resulted in the loss of his right eye.
He was admitted to hospital at the 2nd West General Hospital at Manchester on 1 September 1918 and then was sent to convalesce at Woodcote Park, Epsom on 11 September 1918 then a series of medical institutions at Folkestone, Bexhill, and finally the 5th Canadian General Hospital, Liverpool on 4 January 1919 where it was determined that he would be invalided to Canada effective 13 January 1919.
He was taken off strength from the 18th Battalion to the Western Ontario Regimental Depot at Witley Camp on 1 September 1918.
He sailed from Liverpool aboard the HMT Baltic on 29 January 1919 heading for London, Ontario.
He was returned to England wounded and struck off strength from the 18th Battalion on 12 November 1917 and was posted to the Western Ontario Regimental Depot at Bramshott.
When Private Joshua got to Canada, he was admitted to the Military Hospital in London, Ontario and then transferred to Brant House Military Hospital at Burlington, Ontario, on 7 March 1919.
Returning to London was discharged on 21 April 1919 at London, Ontario due to demobilization as he was medically unfit for further service.
Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada · Monday, June 20, 1960.
Saugeen Indian Dies As Result Of Truck Crash
SOUTHAMPTON – Arthur Joshua, 63, of the Saugeen Indian Reserve, died at the Saugeen Memorial Hospital, Southampton, Sunday afternoon, following a motor accident on the first side-road east of the Saugeen Reserve Village, just east of here.
Mr. Joshua left his home on the reserve with a visitor, Winford Roote, 30, of Chippewa Hill, in a pickup truck. They drove east on Highway 21 and turned north on the Scotch Settlement Road, also known as French Bay Road. At a point six-tenths of a mile north of the highway, the truck veered off the road on the right hand side and ran along the ditch for a distance of about 100 feet before turning over. Mr. Joshua was taken to the hospital here, where he died a short time later.
The accident was first investigated by Chief of Police Fred Mason of Southampton and later by Const. A. C. Jeffers of the Wiarton detachment of the Provincial Police Monday morning. Const. Jeffers said that Mr. Roote will be charged with driving a motor vehicle while not having a licence. Whether any other charges will be laid will be up to the Crown Attorney for the county, said the officer.
Mr. Joshua, a veteran of World War One, made his home on the reserve with his wife and a nine-year-old child.
The Sun Times
Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada · Monday, June 20, 1960.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 