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Definition: Distinguished Service Order |
Distinguished Service OrderNoun1. A British military decoration for special service in action. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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It was instituted 6 September(?) 1886 by Queen Victoria, the Royal Warrant being published on 9 November. It usually goes Majors and above, but is sometimes awards to especially valorous junior offciers. 8,981 DSOs were awarded during World War I, each award being announced in the London Gazette.
The ribbon is red with blue edges, and the medal proper is a scalloped cross shape, white and gold with a wreath and crown in the center. Recipients are entitled to use "DSO" or "D.S.O." after their names.
See also: Army/Navy/Air Force Distinguished Service Orders of Vietnam
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Distinguished Service Order."
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 69 73 74 69 6E 67 75 69 73 68 65 64 53 65 72 76 69 63 65 4F 72 64 65 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01101001 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101110 01100111 01110101 01101001 01110011 01101000 01100101 01100100 00100000 01010011 01100101 01110010 01110110 01101001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01001111 01110010 01100100 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D i s t i n g u i s h e d   S e r v i c e   O r d e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0069 0073 0074 0069 006E 0067 0075 0069 0073 0068 0065 0064 0053 0065 0072 0076 0069 0063 0065 004F 0072 0064 0065 0072 |
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