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Show r APTAIN ALVA LEB, assistant , j army recruiting officer of the Salt Lake district, who received the Croix de Guerre yesterday for service serv-ice with the Eighty-first division. v .: Pit ' 4; I 11 - ; mJlmk JKm 1 OFFICER'S WORTH j TOLD INCITM Services in Operations in Vosges and Verdun Sectors Praised. Captain Alva Lec, assistant army recruiting re-cruiting officer of the Salt Lake district dis-trict yesterday received the French cross of war with one silver star, awarded for service as chief of operations opera-tions of the Eighty-first division. The citation is: "Lieutenant Colonel Alva Lee was a staff officer of great worth and rendered ren-dered great service during the operations opera-tions in which his division took part in the Vosges and Verdun sectors." Captain Lee was returned to his permanent per-manent rank of captain October (5. He was assigned to duty at the local army recruiting station June IT. He enlisted in the Twenty-second infantry in-fantry in June, 1902. Later he was appointed ap-pointed to the United States naval academy, but upon his request for service serv-ice in the army was commissioned a second lieutenant upon graduation in 1908. and assigned to Fort Douglas with the Fifteenth infantry. He remained at the Salt Lake post until l&ll. when he was assigned to duty in China. Here he served until 1914, whon he returned to the United States. He eommauded one of the companies com-panies which took part in General Pershing's punitive expedition- into Mexico in 1915. Captain Lee was promoted to be a first lieutenant in Dcicmber, 1915: a capiain in May. 1917; a temporary major ma-jor in February-, 191s, and a temporary lieutenant-colonel in reptember, 191S. |