Bar to DFC | Subsequent Distinguished Flying Cross Award Select Full Size or Miniature Bar Size:FS Full Size Operation RELEX II – 14

Operation RELEX II – 14 March 2002 to 16 July 2006

From 1944 bars were awarded for further periods of qualifying service

Following Queen Victoria's death during the Boer War

wounds or other disabilities due to service or by cessation of hostilities on 2 September 1945

Bar to DFC | Subsequent Distinguished Flying Cross Award Select Full Size or Miniature Bar Size:FS Full Size Operation RELEX II – 14A bar with a central eagle is awarded for second and subsequent awards of the DFC. Recipients are entitled to use the postnominals 'D. F. C. and Bar' or 'D. F. C. and Bars'. From 1918 to 1972 the DFC was awarded to 2,391 Australians, along with 144 first Bars and five second Bars for subsequent awards. Most of the awards were won in World War II.