Alexander R. Skinker
United States Army Medal of Honor recipient
Born on: October 13, 1883Died on: September 26, 1918
Aged: 34 years 348 days (419 months)
Birth Sign: Libra
Captain Alexander Rives Skinker was a U.S. Army officer who was a Medal of Honor recipient during World War I.
He graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1905. He served in the Missouri National Guard from 1903 to 1908, and entered the Army as a commissioned officer in 1916.
He was awarded the medal for leading an attack on German pillboxes in the Hindenburg Line during the Meuse–Argonne offensive, and was killed in the attack.
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