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D.S.O.

American  

DSO British  

abbreviation

  1. Distinguished Service Order

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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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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