Rank: Sergeant
Unit: 9th Army Ordinance Team (Attached 36th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group)
Awards: Purple Heart
Entered service: 24-Jun-1941
Enlisted: Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Georgia
Enlisted by: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Date of birth: 8-Sep-1920
Hometown: Troup County, Georgia
Marital status: Single. Single. Parents: Earnest Ethlyn Baily and Sara Emma [Otwell] Bailey
Campaign: World War II
Date of casualty: 8-Apr-1945
Age at death: 24
Cause of death: Killed in action.
Four Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SGT Grover L. Bailey
TEC5 Leonard B. Kjelland
2LT Harry B. Leopold Jr
SSGT Dale H. Seggerman
Location of fatality: Ricklingen, Germany
Place of interment: Hillview East Cemetery, LaGrange, Georgia, USA
Originally buried in the United States Military Cemetery, Margraten, Holland. Repatriated October 1948.
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