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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Charles Abbot-Anderson 22 Jan 1875 Farnham, Surrey, England - 06 Sep 1949

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

Henry Abel Smith 08 Mar 1900 St George Hanover Square, London, England - 24 Jan 1993

George Abercromby 18 Mar 1886 - 09 Sep 1964

Spencer Acklom 1883 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - 21 Mar 1918

Hubert Acland 08 Jun 1890 England, United Kingdom - 06 May 1978

Augustus Agar 04 Jan 1890 Kandy, Ceylon - 30 Dec 1968

William Agnew 02 Dec 1898 Paddington, London, England, United Kingdom - 12 Jul 1960

Henry Airey 03 Aug 1842 Kingsthorpe, Yorkshire, England - 11 Oct 1911

William Akerman 16 Jan 1888 Wembdon, Somerset, England, United Kingdom - abt 22 Feb 1972

Harold Alexander 10 Dec 1891 Mayfair, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 16 Jun 1969

Herbrand Alexander 28 Nov 1888 London, England, United Kingdom - 06 May 1965

Lionel Alexander 23 Sep 1885 Alverstoke, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 06 Aug 1956

John Alleyne 11 Aug 1889 Thorner, Yorkshire, England - 17 Dec 1983

Jerome Allsopp 1879 Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom - 27 May 1918

Francis Alston 19 Jul 1878 St George Hanover Square, London, England, United Kingdom - 10 Mar 1961

Harry Altham 30 Nov 1888 8 The Terrace, York Town, Frimley, Surrey, England - 11 Mar 1965

Alexander Anderson 23 Sep 1889 Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada - 08 Mar 1973

Stuart Anderson 23 Sep 1879 Kensington, London, England - 23 May 1954

Thomas Anderson 04 Jul 1881 Fitzroy, Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada - 09 Nov 1972

William Anderson 29 Jan 1873 Montreal, Quebec, Canada - 31 May 1943

William Anderson 09 Sep 1877 Ottawa, Carleton, Ontario, Canada - 14 May 1959

Leslie Andrew 23 Mar 1897 Ashhurst, Manawatu-Wanganui, New Zealand - 08 Jan 1969

Michael Ansell 26 Mar 1905 Naas, County Kildare, Ireland - 17 Feb 1994

Dalrymple (Arbuthnot) Arbuthnot of Edinburgh abt 01 Apr 1867 India - 31 Mar 1941

Ernest Arbuthnot 03 Sep 1876 Torquay, Devon, England, United Kingdom - 12 Jun 1945

Geoffrey Arbuthnot 18 Jan 1885 Havant, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 04 Oct 1957

William Arkwright 10 Nov 1910 Cromford, Derbyshire, England - 1962

Mark Arnold-Forster 16 Apr 1920 Cheriton Nursing Home, Westlecott Road, Swindon, Wiltshire - 25 Dec 1981

Arapeta Awatere 25 Apr 1910 Tuparoa, Gisborne District, New Zealand - 06 Mar 1976

Andrew Aytoun 1860 Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland - 1945

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John (Babington) Tremayne 20 Jul 1891 - 20 Mar 1979

Miles Backhouse 24 Nov 1878 Middleton Tyas, Yorkshire, England - 15 May 1962

Douglas Bader 21 Feb 1910 Saint Johns Wood, London, England, United Kingdom - 05 Sep 1982

Walter Bagot 22 Apr 1864 Blithfield, Stafford, England, United Kingdom - 26 Mar 1927

Joseph Bailey 26 Oct 1864 England, United Kingdom - 11 Jan 1928

Wilfred Bailey 27 Jun 1891 - 12 Jan 1948

Arthur Baker 04 Aug 1868 Calcutta India - 23 Sep 1918

Granville Baker 23 Oct 1870 Poona, Bombay Presidency, India - 12 Mar 1957

Randolf Baker 20 Jul 1879 Blandford, Dorset, England, United Kingdom - 23 Jul 1959

John Balfour Paul 04 Jun 1873 - 23 Apr 1957

Evelyn Barker 22 May 1894 Southsea, Hampshire, England, United Kingdom - 23 Nov 1983

William Barker 03 Nov 1894 Dauphin, Manitoba, Canada - 12 Mar 1930

John Barron 05 Oct 1882 - 1963

Netterville Barron 08 Dec 1867 Temple Ewell, Kent, England - 21 Apr 1945

Harold Barrowclough 23 Jun 1894 Masterton, New Zealand - 04 Mar 1972

Hugh Bartholomew 1872 Glympton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom - Apr 1938

Walter Barttelot 17 Dec 1904 Stopham, Sussex, England, United Kingdom - 16 Aug 1944

Cecil Bates 03 Feb 1882 Wavertree, Liverpool, Lancashire, England - 05 Mar 1935

Louis (Battenberg) Mountbatten 25 Jun 1900 Frogmore House, Home Park, Windsor, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom - 27 Aug 1979

Charles Beatty 16 Jan 1870 Wybunbury, Nantwich, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom - 17 May 1917

Walker Bell 28 Dec 1881 Saint John, St. John, New Brunswick, Canada - 29 Jul 1959

Malcolm Bell-Irving 09 Apr 1892 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 11 Jun 1942

Roderick Bell-Irving 15 Jan 1891 Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 01 Oct 1918

Arthur Bertie 29 Sep 1886 Wytham, Berkshire, England, United Kingdom - 02 Feb 1957

Alfred Bessell-Browne 03 Sep 1877 Auckland, New Zealand - 03 Aug 1947

Richard Bevan 10 Jul 1885 France - 10 May 1976

William Beynon 05 Nov 1866 Agra, Bengal, India - 09 Feb 1955

Edward Billyard-Leake 13 Nov 1895 Campbell Town, Tasmania, Australia - 10 May 1956

William Birdwood 13 Sep 1865 Kirkee, Bombay Presidency, British India - 17 May 1951

Thomas Bisdee 11 Jun 1888 Jericho, Tasmania, Australia - 21 Apr 1934

William Bishop 08 Feb 1894 Owen Sound, Grey, Ontario, Canada - 11 Sep 1956

Hew Blair-Imrie 24 Jul 1915 Brecon, Brecknockshire, Wales - 18 Aug 1944

Noel Bligh 14 Nov 1888 Brighton, Sussex, England, United Kingdom - 04 Jul 1984

Allan Blunt 27 Oct 1880 Dorchester, Oxfordshire, England - 31 Jul 1931

John Bogart 18 Feb 1877 Whitby, Durham, Ontario, Canada - 1944

Charles Bonham-Carter 25 Feb 1876 Paddington, Greater London, England - 21 Oct 1955

Algernon Bonham Carter 01 Jan 1888 Portsmouth, Hampshire, England - 26 Sep 1957

B cont.

Oswald Borrett 1878 Spain - 1950

George Borwick 07 Mar 1879 West Ham, Essex, England - 27 Jun 1964

Rowland Bourke 28 Nov 1885 Kensington, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom - 29 Aug 1958

Humphrey Bowring 18 Apr 1874 Berkshire, England, United Kingdom - 21 Feb 1952

Robert Boyd 23 May 1913 Kilcoan, Islandmagee, County Antrim, Ireland - 10 Feb 1985

Ernest Boyd-Moss abt 1876 Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom - 10 Aug 1915

William Bremner 14 Sep 1894 Alnwick, Northumberland, England. - Nov 1970

John Broadley abt 1921 Leyburn, Yorkshire, England - 18 Feb 1944

Richard Brocklebank 03 Jan 1881 Liverpool, Lancashire, England - 08 May 1965

Eric Brooke-Anderson 10 Sep 1889 Gurnsey, Channel Islands - 13 Jun 1959

Legh Broughton 28 Oct 1873 - 15 May 1942

Frederick Browning 20 Oct 1896 Kensington, London, England - 14 Mar 1965

Thomas Bruce 1872 Aberdour, Banffshire, Scotland - 07 Aug 1966

Edward Brush 05 Mar 1901 - 22 Jul 1984

Paul Bryan 03 Aug 1913 Karuizawa, Japan - 11 Oct 2004

George Bull 10 May 1877 Newry, County Down, Ireland - 11 Dec 1916

Terence Bulloch 19 Feb 1916 Lisburn, County Antrim, Ireland - 13 Nov 2014

Arnold Burrowes 29 Mar 1867 Ontario, Canada - 09 Feb 1949

James Burrows 13 Jul 1904 Canterbury, New Zealand - 10 Jun 1991

Montagu Burrows 31 Oct 1894 Reigate, Surrey, England, United Kingdom - 17 Jan 1967

Charles Buzzard 29 Apr 1873 - 06 Apr 1961

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 New Zealand - 31 Jan 1979

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

Archibald Cochrane 08 Jan 1885 Scotland - 16 Apr 1958

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

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 London, England - 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

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

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

Charles Crane abt 1858 Ireland - Jan 1939

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

Charles Crichton 07 Jul 1872 - 08 Nov 1958

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anthony Deane-Drummond 23 Jun 1917 - 04 Dec 2012

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

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 1879 Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 1944

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

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

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

Peter Douglas 23 Aug 1916 - 08 Oct 1989

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

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 Toronto, Ontario, Canada - 11 Jun 1997

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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 Chester, Windsor County, Vermont, United States - 14 Aug 1955

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

Tommaso Fiaschi 31 May 1853 Tizzana, Tuscany, Italy - 17 Apr 1927

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

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

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

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

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

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