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Show ! M assistant cbief of staff of j American forces in Siberia who commanded Second battalion of regiment when it was organized at Fort Douglas. 1 j t V Al (V 't p. a ' ' r, k , 'I K ? ) - " -' . ? i ,Jr v - i I . f ? A k'. ' I . - v ' ' ,-' V fvH , " - FORMER FT, DOUGLAS OFFICII SIBERIA 7 Tactician and General Staff I Member Planning Work j at Vladivostok. I i - - i M'ord has been received at Fort Douglas Doug-las that an officer popular at the post in tho days we.i the Twentieth regiment was being spll t up to form tho Forty-second Forty-second and Forty-third regiments is now taking an important part in the work of the general staff of the American army, with headquarters in Vladivostok, Siberia. Major. K. L. Eichelberger. who was a captain and commander of the First battalion bat-talion of the Forty-third regiment, is now assistant chief of staff at the Russian port. He Is one of the officers planning the operations of the units now engaged against tho Bolshevikl. Major Eicheiberger, who v.-a 3 popu-ar In military circles while in Salt Lake, went to the United States military academy acad-emy at West Point from Ohio and was graduated as a second lieutenant on June 11, lf09. He served In the Twenty-fifth infantry, in-fantry, the Tenth infantry and the Twenty-second in fa n try before being transferred trans-ferred to Fort Douglas. Shortly after the Forty-third went east this officer was transferred to staff dut y at "Washington, "Washing-ton, D. C and thence to Siberia. |