Rank: Second Lieutenant
Unit: Headquarters & Service Troop, 36th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Date of birth: 3-Mar-1910
Hometown: Vigo County, Indiana
Marital status: One son: Stephen Osborne. Mother: Elizabeth Phoebe Osborne
Campaign: World War II
Date of casualty: 3-Apr-1945
Age at death: 35
Cause of death: Killed in action.
Frank D Osborne was killed when the jeep in which he was riding was hit by anti-tank shell.
Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
PFC Leslie E Cook
2LT Frank D Osborne
Location of fatality: Sandrup, Germany
Place of interment: Highland Lawn Cemetery, Terre Haute, Indiana, USA
Originally buried Ardennes American Cemetery And Memorial, Neupré, Belgium. Repatriated February 1950
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