Alexander R. Skinker

Infobox Military Person
name= Alexander Rives Skinker
born= birth date|1883|10|13
died= Death date and age|1918|9|26|1883|10|13
placeofbirth= St. Louis, Missouri
placeofdeath= Cheppy France
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allegiance= United States of America
branch= United States Army
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rank= Captain
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unit= 138th US Infantry, 35th Division
battles= World War I
awards= Medal of Honor
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Captain Alexander R. Skinker was a Medal of Honor Recipient during World War I. He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1905 before becoming commissioned as an officer in the United States Army. He was awarded the medal while leading an attack on German pill boxes in the Hindenburg Line in which he was subsequently killed.

Medal of Honor citation

Rank and organization: Captain, U.S. Army, 138th Infantry, 35th Division. Place and date: At Cheppy, France, September 26, 1918. Entered service at: St. Louis, Mo. Birth: St. Louis, Mo. G.O. No.: 13, W.D., 1919.

Citation:

:Unwilling to sacrifice his men when his company was held up by terrific machinegun fire from iron pill boxes in the Hindenburg Line, Capt. Skinker personally led an automatic rifleman and a carrier in an attack on the machineguns. The carrier was killed instantly, but Capt. Skinker seized the ammunition and continued through an opening in the barbed wire, feeding the automatic rifle until he, too, was killed.

ee also

*List of Medal of Honor recipients
*List of Medal of Honor recipients for World War I

References

*findagrave|20930 Retrieved on 2007-12-23
* [http://www.accessgenealogy.com/scripts/data/database.cgi?file=Data&report=SingleArticle&ArticleID=0000934 Access Genealogy]

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NAME= Skinker, Alexander R.
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
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