Captain Alexander R. Skinker - St. Louis, MO - Medal Of Honor Resting Places on Waymarking.com

Captain Alexander R. Skinker

Rank and organization: Captain, U.S. Army, 138th Infantry, 35th Division.

Place and date: At Cheppy, France, 26 September 1918.

Entered service at: St. Louis, Mo

Birth: St. Louis, Mo., 1883

Date of Death: 26 September 1918

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.

Armed Service: Army

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