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CommanderDate  Command
RNCapt. Agnew, William Gladstone, DSO, RN23 May 1944  
RNCdr. Allison, John Hamilton, DSO, RN8 Sep 1942  
RNCapt. Armstrong, Harold Thomas, DSO, DSC, RN15 Aug 1944  
RNLt.Cdr. Austen, Nigel Hubert George, DSO, RN23 Mar 1943  

RNCapt. Barnard, Geoffrey, DSO, RN27 Mar 1945  HMS Aurora (12)
RNLt.Cdr. Bennington, Leslie William Abel, DSO, DSC, RN11 Apr 1944  HMS Tally-Ho (P 317)
RNCdr. Biggs, Hilary Worthington, DSO, RN3 Jun 1941  HMS Hero (H 99)
RNLt.Cdr. Biggs, Reginald Charles, DSO, DSC, RN7 Dec 1943  HMS Hussar (J 82)
RNCdr. (retired) Blackburn, John Fulford, DSO, RN7 Oct 1941  
RNCdr. Bockett-Pugh, Ian Hamilton, DSO, RN9 Apr 1943  
RNCdr. Bone, Howard Francis, DSO, DSC, RN23 Sep 1941  HMS Tigris (N 63)
RNRLt.Cdr. Boys-Smith, Humphry Gilbert, DSO, RD, RNR4 Mar 1941  HMS Anemone (K 48)
RNCapt. Brooking, Patrick William Beresford, DSO, RN4 Apr 1944  
RNLt.Cdr. Browne, Hugh Christopher, DSO, RN5 May 1942  
RNCdr. Bryant, Benjamin, DSO, DSC, RN11 May 1943  
RNCapt. Bush, Eric Wheeler, DSO, DSC, RN8 Sep 1942  HMS Euryalus (42)

RNCapt. Campbell, Ian Murray Robertson, DSO, RN9 May 1944  
RNLt.Cdr. Cayley, Richard Douglas, DSO, RN5 May 1942  
RNCapt. Cazalet, Peter Grenville Lyon, DSO, DSC, RN1 Nov 1949  
RNCdr. Cochrane, Archibald Douglas, DSO, RN11 Nov 1919  
RNCdr. Cooper, Edward Tyndale, DSO, RN11 Jun 1946  
RNCdr. Courage, Rafe Edward, DSO, DSC, RN26 May 1942  
RNLt.Cdr. Crouch, Cecil Bernard, DSO, RN28 Apr 1942  HMS Thunderbolt (N 25)

RNLt. D'Oyly-Hughes, Guy, DSO, DSC, RN14 Sep 1918  
RNCapt. Davis, William Wellclose, DSO, RN14 Nov 1944  
RNCdr. Dewhurst, Ronald Hugh, DSO, RN29 Jul 1941  
RNCapt. Dickinson, Norman Vincent, DSO, DSC, RN7 Aug 1945  HMS Ready (J 223)
RNCapt. Duckworth, Auberon Charles Alan Campbell, DSO, DSC, RN23 Dec 1952  

RNCapt. Firth, Charles Leslie, DSO, RN13 Mar 1945  
RNLt.Cdr. Francis, Philip Stewart, DSO, RN29 Dec 1942  
RNRLt.Cdr. Freaker, Ronald Clifford, DSO, RD, RNR19 Oct 1943  HMS Jed (K 235)

RNCdr. Gibbs, Edward Albert, DSO, RN21 Mar 1941  
RNCapt. (retired) Gibbs, George Louis Downall, DSO, RN4 May 1943  HMS Queen Emma (4.180)
RNCapt. Graham, Quintin Dick, DSO, RN23 Oct 1945  HMS Indefatigable (10)
RNLt.Cdr. Gregory, George David Archibald, DSO, RN12 Nov 1940  
RNLt.Cdr. Gregory-Smith, William Frank Niemann, DSO, DSC, RN29 Sep 1942  
RNLt.Cdr. Gretton, Peter William, DSC, OBE, RN19 Oct 1942  HMS Wolverine (D 78)
RNLt.Cdr. (retired) Gwinner, Clive, DSO, DSC, RN6 Jun 1944  HMS Affleck (K 362)

RNCapt. Hamilton, Louis Henry Keppel, DSO, RN26 Sep 1940  HMS Aurora (12)
RNLt.Cdr. Hanson, Ronald John, DSO, DSC, RN6 Jul 1943  HMS Albrighton (L 12)
RNA/Capt. Hardy, Cecil Campbell, DSO, RN1 Sep 1942  
RNCdr. Herbert, Godfrey, DSO, RN31 Jul 1919  
RNCdr. Hezlet, Arthur Richard, DSO, DSC, RN13 Jul 1945  HMS Trenchant (P 331)
RNCapt. Hilken, Thomas John Norman, DSO, RN14 Aug 1945  
RNCdr. Hinton, Eric Percival, DSO, RN30 Jul 1942  HMS Queenborough (G 70)
RNA/Lt.Cdr. Hunt, George Edward, DSO, DSC, RN5 Dec 1944  HMS Taku (N 38)
RNCapt. (retired) Hutchinson, Colin Alexander Gordon, DSO, RN8 Sep 1942  
RNCapt. Hutton, Reginald Maurice James, DSO, RN5 Oct 1943  

RNA/Capt. (retired) Jauncey, John Henry, DSO, RN23 May 1944  HMS Palomares (F 98)
RNCdr. Jones, Basil, DSO, DSC, RN29 Aug 1944  HMS Tartar (F 43)

RNCdr. King, William Donald Aelian, DSO, DSC, RN16 Jan 1945  HMS Telemachus (P 321)

RNLt. Launders, James Stuart, DSO, DSC, RN24 Apr 1945  HMS Venturer (P 68)
RNCdr. Layman, Herbert Francis Hope, DSO, RN3 Dec 1940  HMS Hotspur (H 01)
RNCdr. Lee-Barber, John, DSO, RN11 Nov 1941  HMS Griffin (H 31)
RNCdr. Luce, John David, DSO, OBE, RN14 Nov 1944  

RNCdr. MacIntyre, Donald George Frederick Wyville, DSO, RN9 Mar 1943  HMS Hesperus (H 57)
RNCapt. Mack, Philip John, DSO, RN5 Aug 1941  HMS Jervis (F 00)
RNLt.Cdr. Mackenzie, Hugh Stirling, DSO, RN19 Jan 1943  HMS Thrasher (N 37)
RNLt. Martin, Desmond Samuel Royce, DSO, RN27 Jul 1943  HMS Tuna (N 94)
RNCdr. Maud, Colin Douglas, DSO, DSC, RN14 Nov 1944  
RNLt.Cdr. Maydon, Stephen Lynch Conway, DSO, RN4 May 1943  HMS Umbra (P 35)
RNCapt. McCarthy, Edward Desmond Bewley, DSO, RN11 Nov 1941  HMS Ajax (22)
RNCdr. Micklethwait, St. John Aldrich, DSO, RN28 Jun 1940  HMS Eskimo (F 75)
RNCdr. Miers, Anthony Cecil Capel, DSO, RN7 Apr 1942  HMS Torbay (N 79)

RNLt. Naylor, Cedric, DSO, DSC, RN2 Nov 1917  
RNCapt. Neame, Douglas Mortimer Lewis, DSO, RN8 Sep 1942  
RNCdr. Nicolson, Hugh St. Lawrence, DSO, RN26 Jul 1940  HMS Hyperion (H 97)

RNCapt. Oliver, Geoffrey Nigel, DSO, RN14 Sep 1943  
RNCdr. Onslow, Richard George, DSO, RN10 Nov 1942  HMS Ashanti (F 51)

RNA/Capt. (retired) Petrie, Christopher Henry, DSO, RN8 Jan 1942  HMS Glengyle (4.196)
RNLt. Pilditch, Eric Ian, DSC, RN6 Jun 1944  HMS Atherstone (L 05)
RNCapt. Pizey, Charles Thomas Mark, DSO, RN1 Dec 1942  HMS Tyne (F 24)
RNCapt. Poland, Albert Lawrence, DSO, DSC, RN23 Sep 1941  
RNCapt. Power, Manley Lawrence, DSO, OBE, RN10 Jul 1945  HMS Saumarez (G 12)
RNLt.Cdr. Powlett, Philip Frederick, DSO, DSC, RN1 Sep 1942  HMS Blankney (L 30)
RNCapt. Pugsley, Anthony Follett, DSO, RN24 Aug 1943  
RNLt.Cdr. Pumphrey, Edward Nigel, DSO, DSC, RN2 Oct 1942  HMS Goathland (L 27)

RNA/Cdr. Rawlings, Geoffrey Noel, DSO, RN2 May 1944  HMS Fly (J 306)
RNLt.Cdr. Rich, Lawrence St George, DSO, RN27 Jul 1943  
RNCdr. Rimington, Michael Gordon, DSO, RN3 Oct 1941  HMS Parthian (N 75)
RNCapt. Robson, William Geoffrey Arthur, DSO, DSC, RN8 Jan 1942  
RANCdr. Rosenthal, Alvord Sydney, DSO, RAN10 Feb 1942  HMAS Nestor (G 02)

RNCapt. Salter, Jocelyn Stuart Cambridge, DSO, OBE, RN2 Feb 1951  
RNLt.Cdr. Sclater, Claude Edward Lutley, DSO, RN16 Mar 1943  HMS Obdurate (G 39)
RNCapt. Scott-Moncrieff, Alan Kenneth, DSO, RN18 Jan 1944  
RNCdr. (retired) Sherwood, Martyn Butt, DSO, RN3 Jun 1941  HMS Peony (K 40)
RNCdr. Sladen, Geoffrey Mainwaring, DSO, DSC, RN16 Jun 1942  HMS Titania (F 32)
RNCdr. Somerville, Philip, DSO, DSC, RN8 Sep 1942  
RNCdr. St. Clair-Ford, Aubrey, DSO, RN26 May 1942  
RNCapt. Stevens, Eric Barry Kenvyn, DSO, DSC, RN14 Sep 1943  
RNLt. Stevens, John Samuel, DSO, DSC, RN7 Sep 1943  HMS Unruffled (P 46)
RNCapt. Stevens-Guille, George Frederick, DSO, OBE, RN7 Jun 1940  HMS Codrington (D 65)
RNCapt. Surtees, Villiers Nicholas, DSO, RN19 Jun 1945  

RNLt.Cdr. Talbot, Arthur Allison FitzRoy, DSO, RN9 Feb 1943  HMS Whitshed (D 77)
RNRear-Admiral Talbot, Arthur George, DSO, RN14 Nov 1944  
RNCdr. (retired) Temple, Grenville Mathias, DSO, RN31 Mar 1942  HMS Blyth (J 15)
RNCapt. Thring, George Arthur, DSO, RN3 Oct 1952  
RNLt.Cdr. Tomkinson, Edward Philip, DSO, RN29 Nov 1941  HMS Urge (N 17)
RNRear-Admiral Troubridge, Thomas Hope, DSO, RN20 Apr 1943  

RNNluitenant ter zee 1e klasse (Lt.Cdr.) van Dulm, Johannes Frans, DSO, RNN24 Feb 1942  HNMS O 21 (P 21)
RNCapt. Vian, Philip Louis, DSO, RN3 Dec 1940  HMS Cossack (i) (F 03)

RNCapt. Walker, Frederick John, DSO, RN30 Jul 1942  HMS Stork (L 81 / U 81)
RANCapt. Waller, Hector Macdonald Laws, DSO, RAN3 Feb 1942  HMAS Perth (D 29)
RNLt.Cdr. Wanklyn, Malcolm David, VC, DSO, RN25 Aug 1942  
RNLt.Cdr. White, Richard Taylor, DSO, RN14 Jan 1941  HMS Antelope (H 36)
RNCdr. Woods, Wilfrid John Wentworth, DSO, RN5 May 1942  
RNLt.Cdr. Woodward, Edward Arthur, DSO, RN21 Jul 1942  HMS Unbeaten (N 93)
RNCdr. Woodward, Hugh Joseph, DSO, RN22 Jan 1920  
RNCapt. Wright, John Piachaud, DSO, RN27 Mar 1942  HMS Mackay (D 70)

109 commanders listed with this decoration.

Note: This listing is still being compiled and some recipients might be missing.

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