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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