Family Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. E. Honsberger, of 15, Bellwoods Avenue Toronto.

Cemetery:
Roeselare Communal Cemetery,
Belgium

Grave/Memorial Reference:
I. F. 5.

Location:
Roeselare Communal Cemetery is located 20 Km north east of Ieper town centre via the villages of Zonnebeke and Moorslede (N332). Roeselare is approached via the Iepersestraat and crosses the R32 Roeselare ring road. Prior to reaching the town centre lies the left hand turning onto the Molenstraat, which continues for 80 metres to the junction with Blekerijstraat. The cemetery is located after the first left hand turning of the the Blekerijstraat.

Historical Information:
During the First World War Roulers (now Roeselare) was occupied by the Germans from 19 October 1914 to 14 October 1918. The communal cemetery was used for prisoner of war burials and Commonwealth, French and Belgian servicemen are buried in their respective national plots at the southern end of the cemetery. There are 91 Commonwealth burials of the First World War within the cemetery, three of which were brough in from churchyards at Hooghlede and Knocke in 1936. Special memorials commemorate two casualties buried at Roulers whose graves were destroyed by shellfire. The cemetery also contains seven burials from the Second World War, all dating from 1940.

Commemorated on Page 20 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.. The Book of Remembrance is in the Memorial Chamber, which occupies the second level of the Peace Tower in the Houses of Parliament, Ottawa.