St. Louis County MO Archives Military Records.....Skinker, Alexander R. 1918
WWI 356th Infantry, 89th Division, Co. B
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Congressional Medal Of Honor Citation
  *Alexander R. Skinker, captain, 138th Infantry, 35th Division. For conspicuous
gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with the
enemy at Cheppy, France, September 26, 1918. Unwilling to sacrifice his men when
his company was held up by terrific machine-gun fire from iron pill boxes in the
Hindenburg line, Capt. Skinker personally led an automatic rifleman and a
carrier in an attack on the machine guns. 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. Emergency
address: Mrs. Alexander R. Skinker, wife, care of John Rulon Miller, 416 Walnut
Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Residence at appointment: St Louis, Mo.

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CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR
THE DISTINGUISHED SERVICE CROSS
AND THE
DISTINGUISHED SERVICE MEDAL
ISSUED BY THE WAR DEPARTMENT
Since April 6, 1917
Up to and including
General Orders, No. 126, War Department, November 11, 1919

COMPILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL OF THE ARMY
WASHINGTON
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
1920


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