Rank: Second Lieutenant
Unit: 9th Army Ordinance Team (Attached 36th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group)
Awards: Purple Heart Medal
Date of birth: 21-Jul-1922
Hometown: West Virginia
Marital status: Single, without dependents. Parents: Harry Baker Leopold and Florence E [Hoffman] Leopold.
Campaign: World War II
Date of casualty: 8-Apr-1945
Age at death: 22
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: Baltimore National Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Originally buried in the United States Military Cemetery, Margraten, Holland. Repatriated December 1948.
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