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Major General Reuben Henry Tucker, III General Tucker was a U.S. Army officer who commanded the 504th Parachute Infantry Regiment and was awarded two Distinguished Service Crosses. Early Life ...

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mtDNA haplogroup H (16111T, 16357C, 263G, 315.1C) Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC Royal h...

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Lieutenant-Colonel Vladimir "Popski" Peniakoff DSO MC FRGS was the founder and commanding officer of No. 1 Demolition Squadron, PPA, colloquially known as "Popski's Private Army", during World War II. ...

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General Sir Michael David Jackson, GCB, CBE, DSO, DL (21 March 1944 – 15 October 2024) was a British Army officer and one of its most high-profile generals since the Second World War. Originally comm...

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Wilfred Ruprecht Bion DSO (/biːˈɒn/; 8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential English psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965.

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Lieutenant-General Herbert William Lumsden, CB, DSO & Bar, MC (8 April 1897 – 6 January 1945) was a senior British Army officer who fought in both the First and Second World Wars. He commanded the 1s...

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O. Darby (8 February 1911 – 30 April 1945) was an officer in the United States Army during World War II. Darby led the famous Darby's Rangers which evolved into the US Army Rangers and was also made fa...

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Nigel Austin Stebbing, M.A. 1900 D.S.O. Major (Acting Lieut.-Colonel) R.H. and R.F.A. The Distinguished Service Order awarded 1 January 1917 to Major N. A. Stebbing, 'B' 180th Brigade R.F.A. This offic...

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Major-General Sir Colin McVean Gubbins KCMG, DSO, MC (2 July 1896 – 11 February 1976) was the prime mover of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) in the Second World War.[1] Gubbins was also respo...

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Gustavus Henry March-Phillipps, DSO, MBE (1908 – 12 September 1942; sometimes spelled "March-Phillips") was the founder of the British Army's No. 62 Commando, also known as Small Scale Raiding Force ...

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Brigadier Alexander Henry Delap West The Peerage #459542, Born on 27 December 1877. Son of Reverend Henry Matthew West and Helen Mary Dunlop. Married Harriet Laura Chichester, daughter of Reve...

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Colonel Herbert Dryden Home Yorke Nepean The Peerage #238868, Born on 27 November 1893. Son of Brig.-Gen. Herbert Evan Charles Bayley Nepean and Alice Maud Ross. Married Edith Florence Woods, d...

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Edward Juxon Henry Haughton Peerage, #625187 Son of Colonel Thomas Hutchinson Haughton and Margaret Burke. Married Gwendolyn Alice Murrell Floyd, daughter of Reverend Canon unknown Floyd. Award...

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Major William Fox Bruce The Peerage #43157, Born on 7 August 1883. Son of Hon. William Napier Bruce and Emily McMurdo.1 Married Sibyl Lyon, daughter of Major Alfred Owen Lyon, on 7 December 192...

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Bertram Thomas Carlyle Ogilvy Freeman-Mitford, 3rd Baron Redesdale The Peerage #25260, Born on 2 June 1880. Son of Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale and Lady Clementina Gertr...

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Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Lyttleton de Havilland, CMG, DSO. MiD(2) Mentioned in Despatches Royal Guernsey Light Infantry Formerly Major, Royal Scots Fusiliers. Served in the South African wars. s...

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Lorenzo Sherwood Sabin, Jr. (1899–1988) was a career naval officer who rose to become a Vice Admiral and NATO’s Chief of Staff to the Supreme Allied Commander, Atlantic. He served in World War I, Wor...

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General Sir William George Cubitt VC DSO (19 October 1835 – 25 June 1903) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy...

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Monroe Shoup (30 December 1904 – 13 January 1983) was a decorated general of the United States Marine Corps who won the Medal of Honor in World War II, became the 22nd Commandant of the Marine Corps an...

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