Notable Recipients
The following received the DSO and three bars:
- Archibald Walter Buckle, rose from being a naval rating in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve to command the Anson Battalion of the Royal Naval Division during the First World War.
- William Denman Croft, First World War army officer
- William Robert Aufrere Dawson, Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment during the First World War wounded nine times and mentioned in despatches four times.
- Basil Embry
- Bernard Freyberg, also awarded Victoria Cross
- Edward Albert Gibbs, Second World War destroyer captain
- Arnold Jackson, 1500 metres Olympic Gold Medal winner in 1912
- Douglas Kendrew, served as a Brigade Commander in Italy, Greece and the Middle East between 1944 and 1946. Later appointed Governor of Western Australia.
- Robert Sinclair Knox
- Jacques Dextraze, Second World War Canadian infantry battalion commander.
- Frederick William Lumsden, also awarded Victoria Cross
- Paddy Mayne, Special Air Service commander and Irish Rugby player.
- Sir Richard George Onslow, Second World War destroyer captain and later admiral
- Alastair Pearson, a British Army officer who received his four awards within the space of two years during the Second World War.
- Patrick Leigh Fermor, author of travel books A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. Awarded the DSO for the kidnapping of General Heinrich Kreipe in Crete.
- James Brian Tait, RAF pilot also awarded the DFC and bar, completed 101 bombing missions in the Second World War
- Frederic John Walker, Second World War British Navy Captain and U boat hunter.
- Edward Allan Wood, First World War army officer
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