D.S.O.
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The D.S.O. is open only to commissioned officers, and foreign officers who are associated in operations with British forces are eligible to be honorary members of the order.
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For what he did on Guadalcanal, Merritt Edson, one of the Corps's great small-arms experts, won the Congressional Medal of Honor and the British D.S.O. to add to a string of ribbons already long.
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It was understandable that the gossips had overlooked slim, personable Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, D.S.O.,
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He served in the East Africa operations, won the Military Cross and D.S.O.
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Shepherd, D.S.O., acting Brigadier-General, went into camp at Colchester.
From Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 by Mackie, Charles
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