Distinguished Service Order
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The Distinguished Service Order is a military award of the United Kingdom, as well as formerly throughout the Commonwealth, conferred for operational gallantry for highly successful command and leader
Obverse and reverse (reign of George V)
Distinguished Service Order badge Tallinn Museum of Orders
Major Paul Garneau, of the Royal 22e Régiment, with the DSO insignia he received for "gallant and distinguished services in the combined attack on Dieppe" after his investiture at Buckingham Palace in October 1942
Paddy Mayne
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Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Blair Mayne,, best known as Paddy Mayne or familiarly as Blair, was a British Army officer from Newtownards. He was an amateur boxing champion, qualified as a solicitor and p
Distinguished Service Order
…Frederick William Lumsden, British First World War Royal Marines officer, also conferred on him the Victoria Cross Paddy Mayne, Special Air Service commander in the Second World War and Irish rugby player Sir Richard George Onslow, Second World War destroyer captain and later…
Mayne as a lieutenant near Kabrit, Egypt, in 1942
Col. Mayne's gravestone at Movilla Abbey in Newtownards, Co. Down