Zellner, Rudolph

Rank: Technician Fourth Grade

Unit: Headquarters & Service Troop, 44th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron, 11th Cavalry Group (Mecz)

Date of birth: 20-Jan-1913

Hometown: Blue Springs, Missouri

Marital status: Single. Parents: Ben Zellner (father) and Louise Barr Zellner (mother)

Campaign: World War II

Date of casualty: 27-Feb-1945

Age at death: 32

Cause of death: Killed in action.

Two Blackhorse troopers died in this incident:
SSGT Homer Burton Wooleyhan
TEC4 Rudolph Zellner

Location of fatality: Brachelen, Germany

Place of interment: Blue Springs Cemetery, Blue Springs, Missouri, USA
Originally buried in the United States Military Cemetery, Margraten, Holland. Repatriated October 1948.

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