Distinguished Service Medal GVI Service_Military Merchant vessels maintained essential supply

Merchant vessels maintained essential supply routes while their crews faced threats including submarines

Officers are eligible provided at least 12 years of their service was in the ranks

To qualify

War Medal 1939–1945 (Replica)

Second and subsequent awards denoted by a bar on the ribbon

Distinguished Service Medal GVI Service_Military Merchant vessels maintained essential supplyThe 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.