Private, Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment), 15th Bn., CEF
Service Number: 27353

who died on
Monday, April 26, 1915
Age 25

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

Cemetery:
Roulers Communal Cemetery, Belgium

Grave Reference:
I. F. 5.

Location:
Roulers 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.

Additional Information:
Roulers (now Roeselare) was occupied by the Germans from October 1914 to October 1918. The Communal Cemetery was used by them for the burial of prisoners of war during this period. There are now separate Belgian, French and Commonwealth plots in this cemetery. Three graves were added here in 1936, when they were brought in from churchyards at Hooghlede and Knocke.


Commemorated on Page 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.