Re: WW1 Royal Navy DSO medal

Jill wrote:
Can anyone help me help a friend, please?
We are looking for a reference that will tell her why her relative, who served in the Royal Navy, was awarded a DSO.
We have had a look in TNA but did not find a reference to help.
I would like to be able to give her the right place to ask.



Strange, you should be able to search at:

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wo373.asp

and order the appropriate record for about 4 Pounds.

Note however that the TNA says:

"Distinguished Service Order
The Distinguished Service Order (DSO) was awarded to commissioned officers for distinguished service, normally in positions of command but also, and much less frequently, for individual acts of gallantry. "

It is typically (but not exclusively) awarded only to officers ranked Major or above.



However, just to complicate things it is also true that when awarded to junior officers (below rank of Major) it was sometimes an acknowledgement of extreme bravery only just missing out on a Victoria Cross
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