Rank: Private
Unit: Troop B, 36th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Date of birth: 22-Jan-1917
Hometown: Greeley County, Nebraska
Marital status: Single, without dependents. Parents: Daniel Reed and Frances M [Dutcher] Reed
Campaign: World War II
Date of casualty: 19-Feb-1945
Age at death: 28
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: Greeley Cemetery, Greeley, Nebraska, USA
Originally buried in the United States Military Cemetery, Margraten, Holland. Repatriated September 1948.
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