Honolulu Star Bulletin

COL. ROBERTS TO COME TO HAWAII ON MARCH BOAT
Will Succeed Col. Walter H. Chatfield, Commanding 2nd Infantry at Fort Shafter
(Special Star-Bulletin Correspondence)
FORT SHAFTER, Jan. 11—Orders received today from the war department assign Col. Harris L. Roberts to command the 2nd Infantry, relieving Col. Walter H. Chatfield, who retires for age on March 11.
Col. Roberts is ordered to take the March transport from San Francisco for Honolulu for his new command.
The colonel does not come to Shafter as a stranger, for he is well known, having been in the 2nd Infantry in 1904 as a captain. He is an officer well known in the service, and has many friends in Oahu. At present he is on duty at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Col. Roberts was born in Washington, D. C., in 1858, and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1880, when he was assigned to the 4th Infantry as a second lieutenant.
He transferred to the 19th Infantry in 1881 and remained with that regiment until 1890, when he was promoted to first lieutenant of the 21st Infantry, and again transferred to the 19th Infantry, where he remained until 1898 when he was made captain.
While a captain he was in the 2nd Infantry from 1904 to 1905. Then he was made major of the 26th Infantry.
Col. Roberts received his lieutenant colonelcy in the 22nd Infantry in 1911 and was made a colonel of infantry in 1914.