Distinguished Service Medal GVI Miniature Category_Gallant & Distinguished Conduct Arabian Sea

Arabian Sea

The equivalent award for the other ranks for gallantry at sea in presence of the enemy was the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM) which had been instituted in 1914 and

Jane Seymour

90 days aggregate service or 6 operational sorties between 16th July 1991 and 30th April 2003

two of whom he beheaded

Distinguished Service Medal GVI Miniature Category_Gallant & Distinguished Conduct Arabian SeaThe 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.