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  • D.C.M.
    D.C.M.
    abbreviation
    Distinguished Conduct Medal.
  • DCM
    DCM
    abbreviation
    Distinguished Conduct Medal

D.C.M.

American  

abbreviation

British.
  1. Distinguished Conduct Medal.


DCM British  

abbreviation

  1. Distinguished Conduct Medal

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Multiple ambassadors said the relationship between Kate and her No. 2 in the embassy, the deputy chief of mission, was accurate — along with the show’s use of the acronym D.C.M.

From New York Times • May 14, 2023

Guy Matheson, who had crossed over as a sergeant won the M.M. in this action, and here it was that Corporal Ingram gained the D.C.M.

From Over the top with the 25th Chronicle of events at Vimy Ridge and Courcellette by Lewis, R.

Blacktin, who was awarded the D.C.M. for the continued heroism with which he attended to the wounded throughout the two days' fighting.

From The First Seven Divisions Being a Detailed Account of the Fighting from Mons to Ypres by Hamilton, Ernest W.

"I hear that Tom's going to have the V.C. or D.C.M. or summat o' that sort," remarked a neighbour; "dost 'a know what that means?"

From Tommy by Hocking, Joseph

I had sent a little portmanteau on before me to the "George" at Hereford, with the initials "D.C.M." at the side.

From Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile by Murray, David Christie