Dso Collection

Field Marshal Sir Bernard Montgomery - British Army Officer
Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein (" Monty" ) KG, GCB, DSO, PC (1887-1976) - British Army Officer, famed for his successes and tactical ability in WW2. Date: circa 1944

Major James McCudden, Royal Flying Corps, WW1
Major James Thomas Byford McCudden (1895-1918), officer and pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. He received more medals for gallantry than any other British airman serving in

Flight Lieutenant K. H. F Letford, DFO
Flight Lieutenant Kenneth Harold Francis Letford, as he appeared in the Illustrated London News in 1949, when he was awarded a bar to his Distinguished Flying Cross for gallantry in assisting HMS

Major James McCudden, Royal Flying Corps, WW1
Major James Thomas Byford McCudden (1895-1918), officer and pilot in the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War. He received more medals for gallantry than any other British airman serving in

Primrose Phyllis Salt by Madame Yevonde. She was the daughter of Major-General Harold Francis Salt DSO, making her debut in 1933. Date: 1933

General Sir Frederick Poole, British army officer, WW1
Major General Sir Frederick Cuthbert Poole (1869-1936), British army officer. He joined the Royal Artillery in 1889, and served in the Second Boer War and the First World War. Date: circa 1914-1918

Sopwith 1 1 / 2 Strutter F2211 flown by Lt Col R Bell Davies
Sopwith 1 Strutter, F2211, flown by Lt Col R. Bell Davies, VC, DSO, during his first take-off from HMS Argus on 1 October 1918. Date: 1918

William George Barker, RFC pilot and air ace
William George Billy Barker (1894-1930), Canadian member of No. 9 Squadron, RFC, seen here wearing a fur coat, standing by his Sopwith Camel. His confirmed victories totalled 50

Air Vice Marshal Sir Arthur Mary Coningham, KCB, KBE, DSO, MC, DFC, AFC, RAF, (1895-1948) Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief 2nd Tactical Air Force

Oval portrait of Lieutenant Colonel C V Bulstrode
" Oval portrait of Lieutenant Colonel C. V. Bulstrode, DSO, RAMC. in a pewter frame with RAMC badge. Dated June 1918, Athens

Sir Yeo Cribbett, Lord Packenham, Grp Cpt John Cunningham
From left: Sir Yeo Cribbett, Lord Packenham, Gp Capt John Cunningham, CBE, DSO**, DFC*, HonFRAeS, 1917-2002, Lindgren and Sir J. Bowhill in front of the prototype Comet airliner in 1949. Date: 1917

Major Mick Mannock, British flying ace, WW1
Major Edward Corringham " Mick" Mannock (1887-1918), British flying ace with the Royal Air Force during the First World War

Students of the Empire Test Pilots? School during a vis?
Students of the Empire Test Pilots? School during a visit to Rotol Ltd, Gloucester. Capt N.F. Harrison, DSO, SaF, extreme right; and H. Read, Rotol Instruction School, in civilian dress

Major John Howard DSO, 1912-1999, who led a glider-borne assault on two bridges between Benouville and Ranville in Normandy, France, codenamed Operation Deadstick

Wg Cdr Walter F. Gibb DSO DFC, Bristol test pilot, alon?
Wg Cdr Walter F. Gibb DSO DFC, Bristol test pilot, alongside Bristol Brigand RH297 at the 1947 Royal Aeronautical Society Garden Party at Radlett on 14 September. Date: 1947

Officers of The Welsh Guards at Pirbright Camp - (from left): Mitchell, Dante Edward Pemberton Hodgson OBE LM (1904-1978), Sir Alexander Beville Gibbons Stanier, 2nd Baronet of Peplow Hall

Sir Alexander Stanier, Stevenson and Beckwith-Smith
(from left) Sir Alexander Beville Gibbons Stanier, 2nd Baronet of Peplow Hall, DSO & Bar, MC (1899-1995), (promoted to a Major of the Welsh Guards on 1 October 1932)

Stevenson and Sir Alexander Stanier - Welsh Guards
Stevenson and Sir Alexander Beville Gibbons Stanier, 2nd Baronet of Peplow Hall, DSO & Bar, MC (1899-1995), (promoted to a Major of the Welsh Guards on 1 October 1932)

Major William Augustus Fitzgerald Lane Fox-Pitt, reading
Major (later Major General) William Augustus Fitzgerald Lane Fox-Pitt, CVO, DSO, MC (1896-1988) at The Albuhera Barracks, Aldershot, Hampshire reading in the Library

Lady Marjorie Murray
A portrait painting of Lady Marjorie Murray, the daughter of the 8th Earl of Dunmore, V.C. M.V.O. D.S.O. Date: circa 1924

Flight Lt H. M. Stephen, Squadron Leader J. C. Mungo-Park
Flight Lieutenant H.M. Stephen, DSO, DFC and Squadron Leader J.C. Mungo-Park, both of the RAF, WW2. Date: 1942

Scotts Bunker, Polygon Wood, Belgium
The bunker is just behind the New Zealand National Memorial, though one needs to climb a small wall to visit it from there

Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, China Station, c. 1927
Vintage c.1920s photograph: Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt, 1st Baronet, GCB DSO was a Royal Navy officer. During the First World War he served as commander of the Harwich Force

James AL Haldane
General Sir James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane (1862-1950) GCMG, KCB, DSO Date: 1917

William R Birdwood
1st Baron William Riddell Birdwood (1865-1951) GCB, GCSI, GCVO, CIE, DSO Date: 1917

Reginald Y Tyrwhitt
Admiral of the Fleet Sir Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt (1870- 1951) GCB, DSO Date: 1917

Reginald HS Bacon
Vice-Admiral Sir Reginald Hugh Spencer Bacon (1863-1947). K.C.B. K.C.V.O, D.S.O. Date: 1917

Buttes New CWGC Cemetery, New Zealand Memorial
The cemetery lies on an area which was a pre-war drill ground. It contains 1, 317 UK burials, 564 Australian, 50 Canadian, 167 New Zealand, and 1, 703 Unknown, plus 35 Special Memorials

Morgan Maddox Morgan-Owen - Welsh Amateur Footballer
Morgan Maddox Morgan-Owen (18771950) - Welsh amateur footballer who played in the Football League for Glossop and Nottingham Forest as a wing half

Guy Gibson and fellow dambusters at Buckingham Palace
Wing-Commander Guy Gibson (centre) and his fellow dambusters of the Mohne and Eder raids pictured at Buckingham Palace having received their honours from Queen Elizabeth

A cavalry charge that saved the line, Matania, WW1
The German line taken in flank by a mounted charge in the teeth of heavy machine gun fire. Major Evelyn H. W. Williams of the Hussars was awarded the DSO for his action

Major Edward Corringham Mick Mannock, VC
Portrait of Major Edward Corringham Mick Mannock, VC, DSO & Two Bars, MC & Bar. (1887-1918).. Photograph

Last stand of the 2nd Devons at Bois des Buttes, WW1
Original sketches for the painting entitled Semper Fidelis - Ever Faithful (The last stand of the 2nd Devons at Bois des Buttes, May 27th 1918)

Major John William Hoggart, British army officer
Major John William Hoggart DSO MC (c1873-1936), British army officer of the Royal Artillery during the First World War. Seen here in uniform in a studio portrait. Date: 1914-1918

Major A E Steel, British army officer, WW1
Major (Acting Lieutenant Colonel) Edward Anthony Steel, DSO (1880-1919), British army officer with the RHA (Royal Horse Artillery) and RFA (Royal Field Artillery)

James Thomas Byford McCudden, pilot
James Thomas Byford McCudden (1895-1918), British air ace with a confirmed overall score of 57, who rose to the rank of Major, seen here in the cockpit of his Royal Aircraft Factory SE 5a

Tatler cover - Captain Philip Fletcher Fullard, WW1
Air Commodore Philip Fletcher Fullard CBE, DSO, MC and Bar, AFC (27 May 1897 24 April 1984), English First World War flying ace

North West Frontier Province scenes - NWFP
Album containing 13 pencil and wash drawings, many finely annotated, showing scenes in the North West Frontier. Contains an ink sketch made during the Battle at Shinkamar, 1898

Tank Corps souvenir relating to 16th Battalion Tank Corps
Tank Corps souvenir relating to the 16th Battalion Tank Corps. commanded by Lieutenant-Colonel, the Hon. J. D. Y. Bingham, DSO, listing command structure and appointments, individual awards

Neville Frederick Duke, OBE, DSO, DFC**, AFC, FRAeS, 1922-2007, in the cockpit of Hawker Hunter WB188 after its successful attempt on the World Air Speed Record in September 1953. Date: 1922

General Sir Arthur Holland, British army officer
Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Edward Aveling Holland KCB KCMG DSO MVO (1862-1927), British army officer, Commandant of the Royal Military Academy Woolwich

The Long + Short of It. Kilmainham Camp Dublin
Photograph: The Long + Short of It. Kilmainham Camp Dublin 1922.From an album of 82 photographs compiled by Brig Bowcher Campbell Stenhouse Clarke DSO (d 1969)

Maj-Gen R Hutchinson Dso
Major-General R Hutchinson Dso Date: -

WW1 - Captain Hawker takes on three Germans in the air
WW1 - Captain Lanoe George Hawker VC, DSO (1890-1916), was a British flying ace, with seven credited victories. This illustration captures an occassion on 25th July 1915

Second Lieutenant Albert Ball with Caudron G III
The 19-year-old Second Lieutenant Albert Ball (1896-1917) with a Caudron GIII of the Ruffy-Baumann School of Flying at Hendon during the summer of 1915

Patinated metal relief of Field Marshal Ferdinand Foche
A patinated metal relief of Field Marshal Ferdinand Foche, GCB, OM, DSO (1851-1929). Chastenet

General Sir Wm Robertson
GENERAL SIR WM. ROBERTSON, GCB, KCVO, DSO, Col. 2nd Dns. ADC to the King. General Officer Commanding, Eastern Command (late Chief of the Imperial General Staff)

Miniature - Young Naval Officer wearing a DSO ribbon
A miniature portrait of a young Naval Officer wearing a DSO ribbon. English School

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