D.S.O.
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Example Sentences
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It was understandable that the gossips had overlooked slim, personable Group Captain Peter Wooldridge Townsend, D.S.O.,
From Time Magazine Archive
John Catterall Leach, tall, fair and skinny, was 47 years old, had won the D.S.O. for his part in the Bismarck affair.
From Time Magazine Archive
Prideaux promptly volunteered, led a brilliant cavalry attack on the Reds at Dan-koi, and emerged with the D.S.O., and speedy advance up the military list.
From Time Magazine Archive
For what he did on Guadalcanal, Merritt Edson, one of the Corps's great small-arms experts, won the Congressional Medal of Honor and the British D.S.O. to add to a string of ribbons already long.
From Time Magazine Archive
It will buck him up considerably when he knows he's to get the D.S.O.
From The Fight for Constantinople A Story of the Gallipoli Peninsula by Westerman, Percy F. (Percy Francis)
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