Captain Rudolph Bukeley, formerly a cashier at the First National Bank of Hawaii, commanded the Allied anti-typhus train in Siberia. Under extreme winter conditions, he led a multinational medical crew that bathed, deloused, and treated over 15,000 Czech and Russian soldiers, reducing the spread of deadly lice-borne diseases. His work earned formal commendations from the Czechoslovak, Russian, British, and French military missions
