U.S. Army · United States 
Alexander Rives Skinker
Alexander Rives Skinker served the U.S. Army. Alexander was 34 years old.
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.
Awards & Decorations
1
For valor
Medal of Honor - Army posthumous
13, W.D., 1919.
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