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D.S.O.

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DSO British  

abbreviation

  1. Distinguished Service Order

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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."

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

"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."

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

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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