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Distinguished Service Cross Medal1

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Last Edited: 28 Oct 2021

Notes

  • Note for Web*: Distinguished Service Cross Medal The Distinguished Service Cross is an operational gallantry award given to all ranks of the services in recognition of exemplary gallantry during active operations against the enemy at sea. Personnel who perform a further act of such gallantry which would have merited a second award of the DSC are issued with a silver bar, with rounded ends, ornamented by a crown.

    This award is available posthumously.

    You can replace a Distinguished Service Cross if you meet the criteria..1

Citations

  1. [S49] Website Web Site online (www.) https://www.gov.uk/guidance/medals-campaigns-descriptions-and-eligibility#world-war-2-medals [Sept 2021].