Rank: Staff Sergeant
Unit: Company F, 36th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group (Mecz)
Awards: Distinguished Service Cross, Purple Heart Medal
Entered service: 25-Nov-1940
Enlisted: Urbana, Illinois
Enlisted by: National Guard (Officers, Warrant Officers, and Enlisted Men)
Date of birth: 11-Jan-1921
Hometown: Marshall County, Illinois
Marital status: Single, without dependents
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: Minonk Township Cemetery, Minonk, Illinois, USA
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