Category: Distinguished Service Order

Categories: British Isles and Ireland, Military Decorations

This category contains profiles of persons who have received the DSO.

DSO

The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) is a military decoration of the United Kingdom, and formerly of other parts of the Commonwealth of Nations and British Empire, awarded for meritorious or distinguished service by officers of the armed forces during wartime, typically in actual combat.

Instituted on 6 September 1886 by Queen Victoria in a Royal Warrant published in the London Gazette on 9 November, the first DSOs awarded were dated 25 November 1886. It is typically awarded to officers ranked Major (or its equivalent) or higher, but the honour has sometimes been awarded to especially valorous junior officers. 8,981 DSOs were awarded during the First World War, each award being announced in the London Gazette.

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Brian Paddon 24 Aug 1908 Carshalton, Surrey, England - 21 Feb 1967

Robert Page 21 Jul 1920 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 07 Jul 1945

Richard Palmer abt 1892 Dorset, England - abt 1956

Philip Parbury 16 Sep 1910 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 09 Jan 1988

Frederick Parham 09 Jan 1901 Bath, Somerset, England, United Kingdom - abt 1991

Francis Parker 18 Sep 1876 Perth, Western Australia, Australia - 18 Mar 1915

Allan Peachey 23 May 1896 Béal Átha Conaill, County Cavan, Ireland - 15 Mar 1967

George Pearkes 28 Feb 1888 Watford, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom - 30 May 1984

Cedric Pearson 24 Aug 1918 Kurri Kurri, New South Wales, Australia - 07 Nov 2012

Thomas Pearson 01 Jul 1914 Queenstown, Ireland - 15 Dec 2019

Wilfred Peek 09 Oct 1884 Surrey, England - 12 Oct 1927

Sidney Peel 03 Jun 1870 Westminster, Middlesex, England - 19 Dec 1938

Arthur Percival 27 Dec 1887 Aspenden, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom - abt 31 Jan 1966

Alfred Perkins abt 1869 Kerachi, India - abt 1935

Robert Perry 04 May 1909 Stareton nr. Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England - 1987

Frederick Peters 17 Sep 1889 Charlottetown, Queens, Prince Edward Island, Canada - 13 Nov 1942

Chesley Peterson 10 Aug 1920 Salmon, Lemhi, Idaho, United States - 28 Jan 1990

William Peyton 1866 India - 1931

Ivor Philipps 09 Sep 1861 Warminster, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom - 15 Aug 1940

Owen Phillips 09 Jun 1882 Warwick, Queensland (Australia) - 15 May 1966

Daniël Pienaar 27 Aug 1893 Bosduivenkop, Ladybrand, Natal, South Africa - 19 Dec 1942

Arthur Pirie 03 May 1869 Stoneywood, Aberdeen City, Scotland - 21 Nov 1917

Eric Plant 23 Apr 1890 Charters Towers, Queensland (Australia) - 17 May 1950

Reginald (Plunkett) Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax 28 Aug 1880 Marylebone, London, England - 16 Oct 1967

Reginald Pollard 20 Jan 1903 Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia - 09 Mar 1978

Hugh Pollock 29 Jul 1888 Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 06 Nov 1971

William Poole 08 Oct 1902 Caledon, Cape Colony, South Africa - 09 Mar 1969

John Portal 13 Apr 1886 England - 20 Jul 1980

Selwyn Porter 23 Feb 1905 Tintaldra, Victoria, Australia - 09 Oct 1963

Arnold Potts 16 Sep 1896 Peel, Isle of Man - 01 Jan 1968

William Powell 28 Feb 1868 Madras, India - 18 Aug 1940

Reginald Pratt 29 Sep 1914 Ireland - 1989

Norman Prendergast 07 Nov 1886 Bengal, India - 29 Apr 1950

Bartholomew Price 07 May 1870 Headington, Oxfordshire, England - 30 Nov 1947

Charles Price 16 Jun 1862 Āgra, United Provinces, India - 22 Feb 1942

Muir Purser 07 Jan 1887 New South Wales, Australia - 1970

Cecil Pye 13 Jul 1890 Windsor, New South Wales (Australia) - 04 Oct 1917

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Samuel Radcliffe 1885 - 30 Aug 1918

Alan Ramsay 12 Mar 1895 Windsor, Victoria (Australia) - 19 Sep 1973

Alexander Ramsay 29 May 1881 London, England, United Kingdom - 09 Oct 1972

Frank Ramsay 29 Jun 1897 Bournemouth, Dorset, England - 30 Oct 1942

George Rankin 01 May 1887 Bamawm, Victoria (Australia) - 28 Dec 1957

Haldane Rattray bef 13 May 1870 Tunbridge, Kent, England - 01 Feb 1917

Malcolm Rattray 21 Sep 1869 8 Brigtton Place, Portobello, Edinburghshire, Scotland, - 27 Nov 1919

Martin Redmayne 16 Nov 1910 Woking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom - 28 Apr 1983

John Reeve 19 Apr 1891 Grantham, Lincolnshire, England - 25 Jun 1983

Alexander Reid 18 Jul 1884 Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom - 21 Mar 1948

Ambrose Ricardo 21 Nov 1866 Gatcombe, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom - 09 Jul 1923

Charles Rich 05 May 1883 India - 16 Aug 1917

Arthur Rickard 18 Sep 1895 Waverley, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 09 Mar 1949

Claude Ridley 15 Nov 1896 Sunderland, County Durham, England, United Kingdom - 27 Jun 1942

Robert Risson 20 Apr 1901 Ma Ma Creek, Queensland, Australia - 19 Jul 1992

Harold Ritchie 30 Oct 1876 London, England, United Kingdom - 28 Oct 1918

Brian Robertson 22 Jul 1896 Simla, Punjab, India - 29 Apr 1974

Horace Robertson 29 Oct 1894 Warrnambool, Victoria (Australia) - 28 Apr 1960

James Robertson 1878 Toowoomba, Queensland (Australia) - 22 Jan 1951

Charles Roe 26 Apr 1882 Plymouth, Devon, England - 23 Sep 1960

Francis Romilly 1879 India - 25 Sep 1915

Joachim Rønneberg 30 Aug 1919 Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal, Norge - 21 Oct 2018

Alvord Rosenthal 16 Jan 1901 Lewisham, New South Wales, Australia - 20 Jul 1975

Charles Rosenthal 12 Feb 1875 Berrima, New South Wales (Australia) - 11 May 1954

Charles Ross 10 Mar 1864 Bengal, India - 21 Dec 1930

Robert Ross 29 May 1888 Drayton Bassett, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom - 30 Dec 1963

Hubert Rouse 22 Aug 1864 London, England, United Kingdom - 1945

John Royston 29 Apr 1860 Durban, South Africa - 25 Apr 1942

John Russell 11 Nov 1904 Twyford, Hastings, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand - 06 Sep 1942

Rupert Ryan 06 May 1884 Melbourne, Victoria (Australia) - 25 Aug 1952

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Aubrey Saint Clair-Ford 29 Feb 1904 England - 08 Apr 1991

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Peter Saint Clair-Ford 25 Nov 1905 Ashford, Kent, England - 14 May 1989

Reginald Salmon 1871 Little Bredy, Dorset, England, United Kingdom - 17 Feb 1940

John Salmond 17 Jul 1881 London, England, United Kingdom - 16 Apr 1968

William Salmond 19 Aug 1878 Hougham Without, Kent, England, United Kingdom - 27 Apr 1933

Stanley Savige 26 Jun 1890 Morwell, Victoria (Australia) - 15 May 1954

Charles Scherf 17 May 1917 Emmaville, New South Wales, Australia - 13 Jul 1949

Frederick Scherger 18 May 1904 Ararat, Victoria, Australia - 16 Jan 1984

Victor Scratchley abt 1870 Woolwich, Kent, England, United Kingdom - 1936

Vincent Scully 02 Jul 1881 Ireland - 13 Dec 1941

Henry Settle abt 27 Jan 1847 Lewes, Sussex, England, United Kingdom - 22 Apr 1923

Michael Shanahan 31 Mar 1870 Roma, Queensland, Australia - 12 Oct 1964

Samuel Sharpe 13 Mar 1873 Zephyr, Uxbridge, North Riding, York, Ontario, Canada - 25 May 1918

John Shea 17 Jan 1869 Saint John's, Newfoundland, Canada - 01 May 1966

Willington Shelton 14 May 1849 Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales, United Kingdom - 14 Jun 1909

Alfred Shepherd 13 Apr 1893 Nowra, New South Wales (Australia) - 20 Jul 1917

David Shoup 30 Dec 1904 Battle Ground, Indiana, United States - 13 Jan 1983

Charles Simmons 1881 Dover, Kent, England, United Kingdom - 06 Oct 1918

Noel Simpson 22 Feb 1907 Balmain, New South Wales, Australia - 18 Nov 1971

James Sinclair 29 Sep 1906 Hempstead, Gloucestershire, England, United Kingdom - 08 May 1965

William (Sinclair) Sinclair-Burgess 18 Feb 1880 Longsight, Lancashire, England - 03 Apr 1964

Robert Sink 03 Apr 1905 Lexington, Davidson, North Carolina, United States - 13 Dec 1965

Geoffrey (Skeffington-Smyth) FitzPatrick 11 Dec 1873 42 Portman Square, London, England, United Kingdom - 11 Mar 1939

Geoffrey Sladen 03 Aug 1904 Reigate, Surrey, England - 04 Oct 1985

William Slim 06 Aug 1891 Bishopston, Gloucestershire, England - 14 Dec 1970

Edward Smart 23 May 1891 Kew, Victoria (Australia) - 02 May 1961

Walter Smiles 08 Nov 1883 Belfast, Ireland - 31 Jan 1953

Bertram Smith 06 Feb 1879 London, England - 21 Sep 1947

Humphrey Smith abt 1876 Putney, Surrey, England - abt 27 Sep 1940

John Smith 26 Dec 1914 Lexington, Oklahoma, United States - 09 Jun 1972

Julian Smith 11 Sep 1885 Elkton, Maryland - 05 Nov 1975

Robert Smith 04 Sep 1881 Richmond, Victoria, Australia - 14 Jul 1928

Arthur Smith-Dorrien-Smith 28 Jan 1876 Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom - 30 May 1955

Clive Sommerville abt 11 Sep 1881 - 19 Aug 1943

Frederick Sommerville 21 Feb 1883 Bitton, Gloucestershire, England - 15 Jul 1962

Gunnar Sønsteby 11 Jan 1918 Rjukan, Tinn, Telemark, Norge - 10 May 2012

Herbert Sparling 06 Feb 1880 Kerwood, Adelaide Metcalfe, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada - 02 Jun 1934

Wilfrid Spender 06 Oct 1876 Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom - 21 Dec 1960

Allan Spowers 09 Jul 1892 South Yarra, Victoria (Australia) - 04 May 1968

Charles Spry 26 Jun 1910 Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - 28 May 1994

Ernest Squires 18 Dec 1882 Poona, India - 02 Mar 1940

Bertie Stacy 07 Dec 1886 Mudgee, New South Wales (Australia) - 06 Dec 1971

Richard Stannard 21 Aug 1902 Blyth, Northumberland, England - 22 Jun 1977

Odd Kjeld Starheim 14 Jun 1916 Vanse, Vest-Agder, Norge - 01 Mar 1943

Edward St Aubyn 10 Aug 1880 Stoke Damerel, Devon, England - 10 Nov 1960

Clive Steele 30 Sep 1892 Canterbury, Victoria (Australia) - 05 Aug 1955

John Stevens 07 Sep 1896 Daylesford, Victoria (Australia) - 20 May 1969

George Stevenson 08 Mar 1882 Partick, Lanarkshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 11 Jul 1958

Herbert Stevenson 17 Jul 1878 Richibucto, Kent, New Brunswick, Canada - 01 Sep 1943

Algernon Bingham Anstruther Stewart 06 Dec 1869 - 23 May 1916

James Stewart 19 Jan 1884 Port Fairy, Victoria, Australia - 02 Jun 1947

John Stewart-Murray 15 Dec 1871 Blair Castle, Blair Atholl, Perthshire, Scotland - 16 Mar 1942

David Stirling 15 Nov 1915 Lecropt, Perthshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 04 Nov 1990

Henry Stoker 02 Feb 1885 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland - 02 Feb 1966

Gerald Stoney 17 Jun 1884 Tipperary, Ireland - 06 Apr 1941

Thomas Stout 25 Jul 1885 Wellington, New Zealand - 27 Feb 1979

Addington Strong 13 Mar 1875 Punjab, India - 17 Jun 1930

Malden Studd 29 Sep 1887 Eastbourne, Sussex, England, United Kingdom - 23 Nov 1973

Vernon Sturdee 16 Apr 1890 Frankston, Victoria (Australia) - 25 May 1966

William Sweny 25 Jun 1873 Woolwich, Kent, England, United Kingdom - 16 Aug 1950

Stephen Sykes 21 Apr 1920 Goulburn, New South Wales, Australia - 19 Jan 1957

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David Tamblyn 1880 Callington, Cornwall, England

Ernest Tandy 13 May 1879 Weston-super-Mare, Somerset, England, United Kingdom - 06 May 1953

Allison Tatham-Warter 21 May 1917 Atcham, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom - 21 Mar 1993

Arthur Tebbutt 1884 Quirindi, New South Wales, Australia - 04 Sep 1962

Francis Teck 09 Jan 1870 Kensington Palace, Kensington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 22 Oct 1910

Arthur Temperley 31 Aug 1877 Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England - 07 Apr 1940

Wilfred Thesiger 25 Mar 1871 - 31 Jan 1920

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Walter Thomas 29 Jun 1919 Motueka, Nelson, New Zealand - 22 Oct 2017

Clive Thompson 21 Sep 1882 Bathurst, New South Wales (Australia) - 1941

Henry Thompson 1888 Bushey, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom - 30 Nov 1917

Charles (Thomson) Anstruther 06 May 1855 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - 21 Oct 1925

Evelyn Thomson 13 Aug 1884 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom - 21 Dec 1941

Gerald Thubron 13 Jul 1903 London, England, United Kingdom - 06 Sep 1992

Reginald Timmis 16 Oct 1884 Caterham, Surrey, England - 10 Jun 1968

Walter Tinsley 24 Dec 1898 Richmond, Victoria (Australia) - 21 Jun 1969

Edwin Tivey 19 Sep 1866 Inglewood, Victoria (Australia) - 19 May 1947

Percy Todd 08 Mar 1898 Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada - 1996

Frederick Toll 18 Jan 1872 Bowen, Queensland (Australia) - 06 Nov 1955

Frederick Tonkin 1894 Southampton, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 04 Nov 1918

Philip Thomas Tower 01 Mar 1917 Rhu, Dunbartonshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 08 Dec 2007

Colin Townsend 03 Sep 1927 Ingham, Queensland, Australia - 10 Jun 2006

Peter Townsend 22 Nov 1914 Rangoon, Burma - 19 Jun 1995

Claude Tozer 12 Sep 1890 Sydney, New South Wales (Australia) - 21 Dec 1920

Reginald Travers 21 Apr 1888 Glen Innes, New South Wales, Australia - 03 Nov 1972

Hugh Trenchard 03 Feb 1873 Taunton, Somerset, England - 10 Feb 1956

George Trent 01 Sep 1870 Malta - 11 Jun 1930

William Trevor 1913 India - 12 Jun 1942

Richard Turner 25 Jul 1871 Quebec, Quebec, Canada - 19 Jun 1961

Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes 12 Nov 1902 London, England, United Kingdom - 24 Nov 1943

Edward Twiss 06 Nov 1882 Surbiton, Surrey, England - 01 Aug 1943

Reginald Tyrwhitt 10 May 1870 Oxford, Oxfordshire, England - 30 May 1951

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Theodore Ulrich 10 Dec 1888 Ararat, Victoria (Australia) - 12 Dec 1963

Robert Urquhart 28 Nov 1901 Staines, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 13 Dec 1988

Richard Ussher 17 May 1887 Ventnor, Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 10 Sep 1922

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James Valentine 1887 Lambeth, London, England, United Kingdom - 07 Aug 1917

George Vasey 29 Mar 1895 Malvern East, Victoria (Australia) - 05 Mar 1945

John Vereker 10 Jul 1886 Westminster, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 31 Mar 1946

Hugh Vernon 20 Feb 1877 Hastings, Sussex, England, United Kingdom - 03 Jul 1935

Robert Vial 06 Jul 1915 Camberwell, Victoria, Australia - 07 Mar 2008

Eric Villiers 02 Feb 1881 Chelsea, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 16 May 1964

Oliver Villiers 28 Jun 1886 London, England, United Kingdom - 1981

William Villiers-Stuart 11 Apr 1872 Sleaford, Lincolnshire, England, United Kingdom - 25 Jan 1961

Arthur Vince 19 Jul 1879 Grafton, Northampton, Carleton, New Brunswick, Canada - 21 Mar 1918

Christopher Vokes 13 Apr 1904 Armagh, Ireland - 27 Mar 1985

Alan Vowles 27 Feb 1891 Kew, Victoria, Australia - 06 Jun 1932

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William Wain 07 Aug 1899 Perth, Western Australia, Australia

John Walch 19 Jun 1875 Hobart, Tasmania (Australia) - 22 Jun 1961

Theodore Walker 14 Oct 1900 Richmond, Victoria (Australia) - 1971

Hector Waller 04 Apr 1900 Benalla, Victoria (Australia) - 01 Mar 1942

Blair Wark 27 Jul 1894 Bathurst, New South Wales (Australia) - 13 Jun 1941

Clive Warman 30 May 1892 Norfolk, Virginia, United States - 12 May 1919

Charles Wassell 14 Jul 1889 Lytton, Queensland, Australia - 22 Aug 1944

James Waterlow 25 Apr 1869 Marylebone, Middlesex, England - 19 Nov 1942

John Waterlow 15 Mar 1880 New Barnet, Hertfordshire, England - 31 May 1916

Arnold Waters 23 Sep 1886 Plymouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom - 22 Jan 1981

Geoffrey Watkins 31 Jul 1885 Castle Combe, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom - 30 Jul 1950

Francis Watson 02 May 1880 Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom - 02 May 1918

Eric Webb 1889 Lyttelton, Canterbury, New Zealand - 23 Jan 1984

Cecil Wedgwood 28 Mar 1863 Barlaston, Staffordshire, England - 03 Jul 1916

Gilbert Wedgwood 19 Jun 1876 Barlaston, Stone, Staffordshire, England - 21 Dec 1963

Josiah Wedgwood 16 Mar 1872 Barlaston, Staffordshire, England - 26 Jul 1943

Stanley Weir 23 Apr 1866 Norwood, South Australia (Australia) - 14 Nov 1944

Harold Welch 08 Mar 1879 Husborne Crawley, Bedfordshire, England, United Kingdom - 29 Mar 1918

Henry Wells 22 Mar 1898 Kyneton, Victoria (Australia) - 20 Oct 1973

Alexander West 27 Dec 1877 Templemichael, County Longford, Ireland - 10 Mar 1959

Charles West 22 Apr 1886 Longford, County Longford, Ireland - 30 Dec 1917

Richard West 26 Sep 1878 Cheltenham Gloucestershire England - abt 02 Sep 1918

Claude Weston 28 Dec 1879 Hokitika, Auckland, New Zealand - 10 Nov 1946

Lashmer Whistler 03 Sep 1898 Agra, Bengal, India - 04 Jul 1963

Cyril White 23 Sep 1876 Saint Arnaud, Victoria (Australia) - 13 Aug 1940

James White 22 May 1879 Registered at Richmond, Surrey, England - 02 Feb 1946

John Whitham 07 Oct 1881 Jamālpur, West Bengal, India - 12 May 1952

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