Medal of Honor
September 26, 1918
Cheppy, France
- Rank at action
- Captain
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Conflict
- World War I
- Unit or command
- Company I, 138th Infantry, 35th Division
- Presentation date
- December 31, 1919
The Citation
Sources ↓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.
Sources & record notes
General Order comparison: pending. Current-profile review does not mean that the underlying original order has been examined.
- Alexander Rives Skinker — current Society profile ↗Congressional Medal of Honor Society · Checked 2026-08-26
current identity, service, action metadata, and citation comparison
Transcription, metadata & provenance notes
- Award ID
- MOH-AW-000343
- Transcription status
- Legacy full text · current reference profile matched
- Last source check
- 2026-08-26
- Recorded order reference (not verified against the original)
- 13
- Entered service at
- St. Louis, Mo.
- Archive transcription SHA-256
- 5c0871da7f0fbf06b10dae53e0be8491b744a9ac17d59f95c26ccecf11f65ff0
Legacy transcription retained without substantive editing; current rendered profile variants documented in the Phase 10 evidence snapshot.
Current reference profile confirms identity and core action metadata; legacy full citation text and source-row provenance are retained; General Order comparison remains pending.