Distinguished Service Medal GVI Campaign The CBE: Commander of the

The CBE: Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire

Awarded for acts of heroism and courage in extreme danger

The campaign became one of the most challenging and dangerous theatres of the war

Instituted in 1914

Distinguished Service Medal GVI Campaign The CBE: Commander of theThe DSM was expanded during World War Two to include the Merchant Navy and Army, the WRNS and RAF personnel serving aboard ships. Second award bars issued during the war do not carry the date of award on the reverse unlike those of World War One. As in the First World War the majority of awards issued to foreign nationals were issued un named.