Rank: Private First Class
Unit: Troop B, 36th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Awards: Purple Heart Medal
Date of birth: 9-Apr-1919
Hometown: Bon Homme County, South Dakota
Marital status: Single, without dependents. Parents: August kotalik and Josephine Kotalik
Campaign: World War II
Date of casualty: 19-Feb-1945
Age at death: 25
Cause of death: Killed in action.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
Robert Kotalik
Ralph Robert Reed
Location of fatality: Brachelen, Germany
Place of interment: Netherlands American Cemetery and Memorial, Margraten, Limburg, Netherlands
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