Distinguished Service Order

But we've got a big range of different honours and awards on here today.

from the Indian Order of Merit to the Indian Distinguished Service Medal, the DSO, the Distinguished Service Order, which was really only meant to be awarded to officers of the rank of major or above, but there were subalterns given it in the 1914 campaign.

And for the ordinary soldiers, there was no military medal at this stage, but there were 51 men recorded on these memorials who had the Distinguished Conduct Medal.

and over 150 mentioned in dispatches.

If these officers could not be court-martialed, then obviously Admiral Wake Walker and Captain Leach would have to be awarded medals.

Leach would receive the Distinguished Service Order, and Wake Walker would be made the Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

Funny how those things happen sometimes, from almost court-martialed to given very high-level decorations.

I'm sure their fates would have been different if the Bismarck had not eventually been sunk.

I mean, they, their, their plane was shot down during, um, a low-flying run where, uh, at lowest altitude, they were only 500 feet, um, above ground, um, for, uh, for the mission.

Uh, Mosley's pilot received the Distinguished Service Order.

Mosley, uh, injured his knee, um, and, uh, suffered a concussion.

This was the first of many injuries he got, you know, um, directly owing to hostile action.

Yeah, so the, um, Mosley's, uh, squadron, um, in April 1915 became a bombing squadron, and this involved literally dropping hand grenades from 1,000 feet or, like, strapping, like, a 100-pound bomb to the fuselage of the plane and then cutting it loose, you know, and, like, dropping it, uh, approximately over the target.

Um, on, uh, on the 18th of April, um, Mosley and his pilot were dropping bombs on a Zeppelin shed, um, at the Cunley.

This is what earned, uh, this is the mission, um, that, um, that earned Mosley a, a, a Distinguished Service Order of his own.

But, um, and there was an interesting dynamic to, um, between, uh, the soldiers kind of in this first early phase of World War I.

You led raids, placed demolition charges, commanded irregular forces across a thousand miles of desert.

At Buckingham Palace, the king wanted to give you the Companion of the Order of the Bath and the Distinguished Service Order.

You refused both, in front of the king, because of Sykes-Picot.

The promises made to the Arabs were broken before the revolt began.

Small force, high mobility, strike, and disappear.

He will just do it as if it were obvious.

He will have wild men in his company like Paddy Mayne, four Distinguished Service orders, a man who understood asymmetric violence at a level below doctrine.

They will perform asymmetrical operations on another level.

Interestingly enough, people, there's been a bit of a debate about this.

Why didn't Paddy Mayne do the job? Because, you know, three DS, four DSOs later, you know, you'd think he was, he was the man, but by his own admission, um, he was not the right man to fight a war in the corridors of power.

Whereas Brian was, he understood influence, um, how to maneuver if you like in the, in the war office, uh, as well as the battlefield.

Of course, it's going to have to be tactful, isn't it? And, you know, from what we've kind of learned, or rightly or wrongly, we don't know how much is true, but, you know, with Paddy Mayne, he had this sort of lack of respect for authority, so it would appear.

DSO.

Distinguished Service Order.

Another piece of metal issued to officers for being brave.

Tommy says it is mostly won in dugouts and calls it a Dugout Service Order.

What are all those medals on your chest?

Oh, Distinguished Service Order.

And this one, I know.

The Distinguished Flying Cross.

Rod 564, likely because he was intimately involved in planning for Operation Overlord.

Instead, the attack would be led by Command Group Captain Percy Pick Pickard, a highly experienced and decorated commander who, by early 1944, had received the Distinguished Flying Cross and Distinguished Service Order with three bars prior to joining 140 wing picard had flown dozens of missions over germany in vickers wellington bombers directed the dropping of agents and supplies to the french resistance and commanded 51 squadron during operation biting the february 27th 1942 paratrooper raid to capture a german radar in bruneval france Another incredible story for another video.

However, Picard was probably best known for his appearance in the Oscar-winning 1940 propaganda film Target for Tonight, in which he and his Wellington bomber F for Freddy became the faces of the British bombing effort against Germany.

The raid would be carried out in three waves.