D.S.O.
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Under Dorati, who arrived three years ago, the D.S.O. has become one of the crown jewels of the struggling "Detroit renaissance."
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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.
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"If you go to sea under Mars," said one of his crew the day Mars got the D.S.O. at Buckingham Palace, "you know you're all right."
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Both his parents were Scottish, and his father, Major Valentine Fleming, D.S.O., was a Conservative Member of Parliament killed in battle in 1916 on the Somme River.
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He is a D.S.O., an O.M., a G.C.B., a G.C.V.O., and a Grand Officer of the French Legion of Honour.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various
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