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Military service
Service number:
228452
Age:
19
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Central Ontario Regiment)
Division:
198th Bn.
Birth:
October 30, 1897
Death:
July 12, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
V. C4.
Additional information
Son of Henry and Agnes Offenburger, of Coe Hill, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Private Henry Frederick Offenburger
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Eaton's Memorial Plaque
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Grave Marker
Photo courtesy of Craig B.Cameron. -
Memorial
Pte. Henry F. Offenburger's name appears on this Memorial Tablet. St. Paul's was founded in 1822 as the first Roman Catholic parish in York (now Toronto). The present church was designed by Joseph Connelly in 1889 and was renamed St. Paul's Basilica in 1999. The WWI Memorial plaque is located outside the front entrance of the church. The Basilica is located in downtown Toronto on the corner of Power and Queen Street. -
Newspaper Clipping
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Newspaper Clipping
Pte. Henry Frederick Offenburger enlisted with the 198th Buffs Battalion in Toronto on May 19th, 1916. Tribute to soldiers of the 198th "Canadian Buffs" Battalion. -
Memorial
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of HENRY FREDERICK OFFENBURGER
Photo from the National Memorial Album of Canadian Heroes c.1919. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me. -
Photo of HENRY FREDERICK OFFENBURGER
In memory of the employees of the T. Eaton Company that went to war and did not come home. Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram July 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram June 1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 303 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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