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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Person Profiles (800)

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Hugh Cairns 09 Jun 1907 Bradford Abbas, Sherborne, Dorset, England - 03 Jul 1942

Cecil Callaghan 31 Jul 1890 Sydney, New South Wales (Australia) - 01 Jan 1967

Bernard Callinan 02 Feb 1913 Essendon, Victoria, Australia - bef 20 Jul 1995

Allan Cameron 16 May 1909 Brunswick, Victoria, Australia - 1960

Donald Cameron 19 Nov 1879 Brisbane, Queensland (Australia) - 19 Nov 1960

Donald Cameron 05 Apr 1911 Alexandria, Lochiel, Glengarry, Canada West - 03 May 1970

Henry Cameron 27 Jan 1880 Kew, Victoria (Australia) - 09 Feb 1966

Archie Campbell 17 Oct 1885 Wee Waa, New South Wales (Australia) - 04 Sep 1963

Gordon Campbell 06 Jan 1886 London, Middlesex, England - 03 Oct 1953

Ian Campbell 23 Mar 1900 Moss Vale, New South Wales (Australia) - 31 Oct 1997

Victor Campbell 20 Aug 1875 Brighton, Sussex, England - 19 Nov 1956

Douglas Campion 14 Dec 1883 Simla, India - 22 Jun 1963

William Campion 03 Jul 1870 St. George Hanover Square, Middlesex, England - 02 Jan 1951

James Cannan 29 Aug 1882 Townsville, Queensland (Australia) - 23 May 1976

Algernon Capell 01 Nov 1869 Tettenhall Wood, Wolverhampton, England - 24 Feb 1953

Alfred Carey 03 Jun 1881 Blenheim, Ontario, Canada - 29 Mar 1922

Dougald Carmichael 08 Nov 1885 Collingwood, Simcoe, Ontario, Canada - 15 Sep 1945

Henry Carr 02 Sep 1872 Rawal Pindi, Bengal, India - 22 Jan 1951

Reginald Carr 06 Jan 1887 Raymond Terrace, Colony of New South Wales - 25 Jun 1974

Consett Carre-Riddell 05 Jan 1887 Elsternwick, Victoria, Australia - 03 Jun 1953

Robert Cary 18 Aug 1890 Kansas City, Jackson, Missouri - 15 Jul 1967

Richard Casey 29 Aug 1890 Brisbane, Queensland (Australia) - 17 Jun 1976

Clement Cazalet 16 Jul 1869 Holmwood, Dorking, Surrey, England - 23 Mar 1950

Frederick Chalmers 04 Jan 1881 Hobart, Tasmania (Australia) - 25 Mar 1943

Edward Chamberlayne 21 Dec 1881 Weddington, Warwickshire, England - 02 May 1963

John Chancellor 20 Oct 1870 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom - 31 Jul 1952

John Chapman 15 Dec 1896 Braidwood, New South Wales (Australia) - 19 Apr 1963

Hugh (Cheape) Gray-Cheape 15 Nov 1878 Strathmiglo, Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom - 27 May 1918

Geoffrey Cheshire 07 Sep 1917 Hoole, Cheshire, England - 31 Jul 1992

Frederick Chilton 23 Jul 1905 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - 01 Oct 2007

Johan Christie 23 Jul 1909 Vang, Hedmark, Norge - 05 Jul 1995

Werner Christie 13 Dec 1917 Vang, Hedmark, Norge - 29 Dec 2004

Gordon Churchill 08 Nov 1898 Medonte, Simcoe, Ontario - 03 Aug 1985

John Churchill 04 Feb 1880 Phoenix Park, County Dublin, Ireland - 23 Feb 1947

John Churchill 16 Sep 1906 Surrey, England, United Kingdom - 08 Mar 1996

Walter Churchill 24 Nov 1907 Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands - 27 Aug 1942

James (Clark) Chichester-Clark 26 Sep 1884 Ireland - 31 Jan 1933

William Clark-Kennedy 03 Mar 1879 Dunskay, Ayrshire, Scotland - 25 Oct 1961

Andrew Clarke 11 Sep 1906 Haywards Heath, Sussex, England - 23 Aug 1943

Henry (Clarke) Courtney Clarke 03 May 1890 Wheaton Aston, Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom - 07 Mar 1968

Henry Clifford 13 Aug 1867 Kensington, Middlesex, England - 11 Sep 1916

Arthur Clouston 23 Aug 1907 Motueka, Tasman, New Zealand - 01 Jan 1984

Cyril Clowes 11 Mar 1892 Warwick, Queensland (Australia) - 19 May 1968

Walter Clutterbuck 17 Nov 1894 Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom - 02 Feb 1987

Arthur Cobby 26 Aug 1894 Glenhuntly, Victoria (Australia) - 11 Nov 1955

Archibald Cochrane 08 Jan 1885 Fife, Scotland, United Kingdom - 16 Apr 1958

Allan Cockerell 21 Nov 1891 Macraes Flat, Otago, Otago, New Zealand - 07 Feb 1975

Paul (Cohen) Cullen 13 Feb 1909 Newcastle, New South Wales, Australia - 07 Oct 2007

Adrian Cole 19 Jun 1895 Glen Iris, Victoria (Australia) - 14 Feb 1966

Herbert Collett 12 Nov 1877 Saint Peter Port, Guernsey - 15 Aug 1947

Percy Collins 1890 South Yarra, Victoria (Australia) - bef 1937

Raymond Collishaw 22 Nov 1893 Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada - 28 Sep 1976

Iain Colquhoun 20 Jun 1887 - 12 Nov 1948

George Colvin 27 Mar 1878 St George Hanover Square RD, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 02 Mar 1962

William Compton 06 Aug 1885 Hanover Square, London, England - 30 Jan 1978

Arthur Corfe abt 1880 Christchurch, New Zealand - abt 30 Jan 1949

Arthur Cornish 24 Apr 1884 Lucknow, Bengal, India - 1951

Arthur Cotton 18 Aug 1873 Lucknow, Bengal, India - 13 Sep 1952

Harold Cotton bef 07 Apr 1878 Trinity, Jersey, Channel Islands - 03 Sep 1916

Charles Cowan 18 Sep 1883 - 22 Mar 1958

Michael Cowan 18 Oct 1916 Blakiston, South Australia, Australia - 28 Nov 1989

Walter Cowan 11 Jun 1871 Glan yr Afon, Crickhowell, Breconshire, Wales, United Kingdom - 14 Feb 1956

Charles Cox 02 May 1863 Pennant Hills, New South Wales (Australia) - 20 Nov 1944

Geoffrey Cox 04 Dec 1914 Bondi, New South Wales, Australia - 16 Nov 1964

Walter Coxen 22 Jun 1870 Egham, Surrey, England, United Kingdom - 15 Dec 1949

Charles Crane abt 1858 Ireland - Jan 1939

John Crawford 08 Jul 1899 Paddington, New South Wales (Australia) - 07 Mar 1943

Henry Crerar 28 Apr 1888 Hamilton, Wentworth, Ontario, Canada - 01 Apr 1965

C cont.

Charles Crichton 07 Jul 1872 - 08 Nov 1958

Frederick Cripps 04 Jul 1885 London, England - 05 Oct 1977

Alan Crisp 23 Dec 1889 Hobart, Tasmania (Australia) - 1971

Morgan Crofton 27 Nov 1879 Winchester, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 08 Dec 1958

Alexander Crosbie 27 Feb 1919 St. John's, Newfoundland - 10 Jun 1981

James Cross 11 Dec 1876 Caledonia Springs, Caledonia, United Counties of Prescott and Russell, Ontario, Canada - 01 Mar 1952

Philip Cross 01 May 1917 Port-of-Spain, Trinidad and Tobago, British West Indies - 04 Oct 2013

Ivor Crosthwaite 16 Apr 1915 Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom - 2000

Henry Crowther 29 Jul 1887 Brighton, Victoria (Australia) - 17 Apr 1966

Alan Cunningham 01 May 1887 Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland - 30 Jan 1983

Ashton Cutcliffe 11 Aug 1869 Swansea, Glamorgan, Wales - 23 Jan 1946

James Cuthbert 21 Jul 1876 Melsetter, Natal - 27 Sep 1915

Manfred Czernin 18 Jan 1913 Berlin, Brandenburg, Germany - 06 Oct 1962

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Thomas Daly 19 Mar 1913 Ballarat, Victoria, Australia - 05 Jan 2004

Thomas Daly 1884 Coburg, Victoria (Australia) - 1968

Frank Daniell 16 Mar 1868 Bengal, India - 29 Jan 1955

Robert Daniell 15 Oct 1901 London, England, United Kingdom - 1996

William Darby 09 Feb 1911 Fort Smith, Sebastian, Arkansas, United States - 30 Apr 1945

Herbert Darling 04 Aug 1879 Adelaide, South Australia (Australia) - 18 Dec 1942

Donald Davidson 1908 Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England - Oct 1944

Charles Davies 06 Sep 1880 Dunedin, New Zealand - 10 Dec 1946

Harry Day 03 Aug 1898 Sarawak, Malaysia - 02 Dec 1977

Edwin Dean 11 Dec 1884 North Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - 03 Jun 1970

Anthony Deane-Drummond 23 Jun 1917 - 04 Dec 2012

Charles Deedes 09 Aug 1879 Nether Broughton, Leicestershire, England - 09 Mar 1969

Edward De Fonblanque 29 May 1895 Kensington, London, England, United Kingdom - 17 Sep 1981

Henry de la Poer Beresford-Peirse 09 Jan 1875 Yorkshire, England - 14 May 1949

Charles Denehy 15 Oct 1879 Carlton, Victoria, Australia - 1968

Garnet Denison 08 Sep 1876 Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 23 Oct 1967

John Denison 25 May 1853 Toronto, Canada West - 09 Mar 1939

Latimer Denison 27 Dec 1920 Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - 30 Mar 1945

Walter Denison 27 Aug 1880 Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 1944

Francis Derham 15 May 1885 Eaglehawk, Victoria (Australia) - 22 Oct 1957

Robert de Winton 16 Sep 1908 St Johns, Edinburgh, Scotland - 10 Feb 1947

Henry DeWolf abt 26 Jun 1903 Nova Scotia, Canada - abt 18 Dec 2000

Walter Dexter 31 Aug 1873 Birkenhead, Cheshire, England - 1950

Walter Dexter 05 Jan 1914 South Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - aft 1990

John (Dickson) Dickson-Poynder 31 Oct 1866 Isle of Wight, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 06 Dec 1936

Alfred Digby-Smith 18 Jul 1877 New Zealand - 10 May 1950

Living Dobbin

Claude Dobson 01 Jan 1885 Clifton, Bristol, England - 26 Jun 1940

Thomas Dodds 11 Nov 1873 Gateshead, County Durham, England, United Kingdom - 15 Oct 1943

Joseph Dods 1874 Shepherds Bush, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 06 Dec 1930

Haddon Donald 20 Mar 1917 Masterton, Wellington, New Zealand - 23 Apr 2018

John Dorney 09 Jan 1912 Ascot Vale, Victoria, Australia - 30 Aug 2007

Peter Douglas 23 Aug 1916 - 08 Oct 1989

William Douglas 13 Aug 1858 Cranborne, Dorset, England, United Kingdom - 02 Nov 1920

Roy Dowling 28 May 1901 Condong, New South Wales, Australia - 15 Apr 1969

Richard Dowse 29 Jun 1866 Portsea, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 24 May 1955

Richard Doyle 10 Dec 1871 Bononga, Queensland (Australia) - 02 Apr 1949

Edmund Drake-Brockman 21 Feb 1884 Busselton, Western Australia - 01 Jun 1949

Peter Drummond 02 Jun 1894 Perth, Western Australia, Australia - 27 Mar 1945

Charles Duff 19 Nov 1898 Wellington, New Zealand - 04 Jan 1972

Charles Dumbell 1878 Laleham, Middlesex, England - 20 Mar 1935

Benjamin Dunkelman 26 Jun 1913 York, Ontario, Canada - 11 Jun 1997

James Durrant 17 Mar 1885 Glenelg, South Australia (Australia) - 17 Sep 1963

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Thomas Eastick 03 May 1900 Hyde Park, South Australia, Australia - 16 Dec 1988

Kenneth Eather 06 Jul 1901 Balmain, New South Wales, Australia - 09 May 1993

Cedric Edgar 09 Jul 1901 Wedderburn, Victoria, Australia - 02 Sep 1967

Eric Edgerton 1897 Essendon, Victoria, Australia - 12 Aug 1918

Charles Edgett 25 Sep 1881 Moncton, Westmorland, New Brunswick, Canada - 09 Jan 1947

Ernest Edlmann 24 Nov 1868 Leamington, Warwickshire, England - 17 Apr 1915

Merritt Edson 25 Apr 1897 Rutland, Rutland, Vermont, United States - 14 Aug 1955

Hugh Edwards 01 Aug 1914 Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia - 05 Aug 1982

Charles Egerton 10 Nov 1848 Birr, County Offaly, Ireland - 20 Feb 1921

Harold Elliott 19 Jun 1878 Charlton, Victoria (Australia) - 23 Mar 1931

Samuel Elworthy 23 Mar 1911 Timaru, Canterbury, New Zealand - 04 Apr 1993

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Henry Emerson 14 Sep 1881 Dublin, Ireland - 17 Nov 1957

Hugh England 23 Apr 1884 Ealing, London, England - 25 Nov 1978

Vivian England 04 Jan 1894 Stanmore, New South Wales, Australia - 19 Sep 1951

Jack Ensor 05 Feb 1919 Union Mills, St. Stephen, Charlotte, New Brunswick, Canada - 29 Aug 1979

George Erskine 23 Aug 1899 Hambledon, Surrey, England, United Kingdom - 29 Aug 1965

Alexander Henry Eustace 14 Jun 1863 Cape Town, Cape Colony, South Africa - 11 Mar 1939

Henry Montague Eustace 28 Nov 1863 Great Sampford, Essex, England, United Kingdom - 27 Feb 1926

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John Fahey 02 Oct 1883 Glenough, Tipperary, Ireland - 28 Apr 1959

Harold Farncomb 28 Feb 1899 North Sydney, New South Wales (Australia) - 12 Feb 1971

William Farquhar 14 Aug 1879 Brecon, Breconshire, Wales - 30 Mar 1975

Lindley Fayle 31 Jul 1903 Bristol, England, United Kingdom - Mar 1972

Cecil Feilden 13 Mar 1863 Quebec, Canada - 19 Feb 1902

George Ferguson 18 Jun 1872 Queensland, Australia - 20 Apr 1933

Bernard Fergusson 06 May 1911 London, England, United Kingdom - 28 Nov 1980

Charles Fergusson 17 Jan 1865 Dailly, Ayrshire, Scotland, United Kingdom - 20 Feb 1951

Maurice Fergusson 05 Dec 1895 Caulfield, Victoria, Australia - 27 Sep 1975

Patrick Fermor 11 Feb 1915 London, England, United Kingdom - 10 Jun 2011

Cuthbert Fetherstonhaugh 10 Feb 1879 Saint Leonards, New South Wales (Australia) - 20 Sep 1961

Albert Fewtrell 12 Mar 1885 Chester, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom - 16 Oct 1950

Robert ffrench Blake 03 Mar 1913 Rawalpindi, India - 11 Mar 2011

Tommaso Fiaschi 31 May 1853 Tizzana, Quarrata, Pistoia, Toscana, Italia - 17 Apr 1927

John Field 10 Apr 1899 Castlemaine, Victoria (Australia) - 12 May 1974

Herbert Finch 10 May 1866 Sonning, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom - 09 May 1915

Living Fisher

Ernest Fitzpatrick 12 Feb 1878 Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom - 26 Aug 1949

Norman Fleay 1916 Wagin, Western Australia, Australia - 07 Mar 2001

Valentine Fleming 15 Aug 1882 Newport-on-Tay, Fife, Scotland - 20 May 1917

Frederick Forbes 24 Feb 1883 Prahran, Victoria (Australia) - 22 Sep 1957

Robert Forbes 07 Mar 1911 Devon, York, New Brunswick, Canada

James Forbes-Robertson 07 Jul 1884 England - 05 Aug 1955

Ronald Forbes Adam 30 Oct 1885 Bombay, Mahārāshtra, India - 26 Dec 1982

Harry Foster 02 Apr 1902 Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, Canada - 16 Aug 1964

John Foster 1857 Pontefract, Yorkshire, England - 21 Jun 1932

John Fraser 16 Aug 1877 Waterloo, New South Wales, Australia - 03 Jun 1934

Simon (Fraser) Fraser Fourteenth Lord Lovat 25 Nov 1871 Beauly Highland, Scotland - 18 Feb 1933

Robert Frederick 14 Mar 1907 San Francisco, California, United States - 29 Nov 1970

Clement Freeman-Mitford 14 Dec 1876 St Luke, Chelsea, London, Middlesex, England - 13 May 1915

John Frend 07 Feb 1883 Silver Hills, Cloughjordan, County Tipperary, Ireland - 10 Feb 1931

Bernard Freyberg 21 Mar 1889 Richmond, Surrey, England - 04 Jul 1963

John Frost 31 Dec 1912 Pune (Poona), Mahārāshtra, India - 21 May 1993

Harry Fulton 15 Aug 1869 Dalhousie, Himāchal Pradesh, India - 29 Mar 1918

Richard Fyffe 12 Aug 1912 - 24 Dec 1972

Charles Fysh 13 Oct 1894 Woolwich, Greater London, Kent, England - 28 Jul 1918

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Henry Gallaugher 14 Mar 1886 Ardnaditian, Raymoghy, County Donegal, Ireland - 07 Jun 1917

Frederick Galleghan 11 Jan 1897 Jesmond, New South Wales (Australia) - 20 Apr 1971

Henry Galway 25 Sep 1859 Alverstoke, Hampshire, England - 17 Jun 1949

Philip Game 30 Mar 1876 Streatham, Surrey, England - 04 Feb 1961

James Gammell 25 Sep 1892 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, United Kingdom - 01 Sep 1975

Gerald Garnons-Williams 24 Jan 1893 Brecon, Breconshire, Wales, United Kingdom - 03 Nov 1977

Julian Gascoigne 25 Oct 1903 - 26 Feb 1990

Galfry (Gataker) Gatacre 11 Jun 1907 Wooroolin, Queensland, Australia - 11 Aug 1983

John Gathorne-Hardy 14 Jan 1874 Frittenden, Kent, England, United Kingdom - 21 Aug 1949

John Gellibrand 05 Dec 1872 Lleintwardeine, Tasmania (Australia) - 03 Jun 1945

Harry Genet 21 Feb 1864 Kensington, London - 17 Mar 1946

Guy Gibson 12 Aug 1918 Simla, Himāchal Pradesh, India - 19 Sep 1944

Thomas Gill 31 Jan 1917 Wellington, New Zealand - 01 Mar 1982

Denys Gillam 18 Nov 1915 Tynemouth, Northumberland, England, United Kingdom - 02 Jul 1991

Édouard Girouard 26 Jan 1867 Montréal, Québec, Canada - 26 Sep 1932

Alexander Glasfurd 04 Dec 1870 Seetabuldee, Bengal, India - 1942

Thomas Glasgow 06 Jun 1876 Tiaro, Queensland (Australia) - 04 Jul 1955

Edward Glennie 18 Jul 1889 - 15 Feb 1980

Henry Goddard 13 Dec 1869 West Hackney, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 24 Oct 1955

Arthur Godman 20 Sep 1877 Great Smeaton, North Riding of Yorkshire, England. - 26 Jul 1956

Robert Gooch 06 May 1903 Blything, Suffolk, England, United Kingdom - 13 Nov 1978

Ralph Goodwin 27 Sep 1917 Sandgate, Queensland, Australia - abt 2012

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