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The Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) is a third level military decoration awarded to officers, and since 1993 ratings and other ranks, of the British Armed Forces, Royal Fleet Auxiliary and British Merchant Navy, and formerly also to officers of other Commonwealth countries.

The DSC is \"awarded in recognition of an act or acts of exemplary gallantry during active operations against the enemy at sea.\" Since 1979 it can be awarded posthumously.

The award was originally created in 1901 as the Conspicuous Service Cross, for award to warrant and subordinate officers, including midshipmen, ineligible for the Distinguished Service Order. It was renamed the Distinguished Service Cross in October 1914, eligibility being extended to all naval officers (commissioned and warrant) below the rank of lieutenant commander.

From March 1915 foreign officers of equivalent rank in allied navies could receive honorary awards, and in August 1916 bars were introduced to reward further acts of gallantry meriting the Cross, with a silver rosette worn on the ribbon when worn alone to denote the award of each bar. During World War I officers of the Merchant and Fishing Fleets had been awarded the DSC and their eligibility was legally clarified by an order in council in 1931.

World War II saw a number of changes. In December 1939 eligibility was extended to Naval Officers of the rank of Commander and Lieutenant-Commander. In April 1940 equivalent ranks in the Royal Air Force serving with the Fleet could receive the DSC, and from November 1942 so could those in the Army aboard defensively equipped merchant ships.

Since the 1993 review of the honours system, as part of the drive to remove distinctions of rank in awards for bravery, the Distinguished Service Medal, formerly the third level decoration for ratings, has been discontinued. The DSC now serves as the third level award for gallantry at sea for all ranks, not to the standard required to receive the Victoria Cross or the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross.

The DSC had also been awarded by Commonwealth countries but by 1990\'s most, including Canada, Australia and New Zealand, were establishing their own honours systems and no longer recommended British honours.

Recipients are entitled to the post-nominal \"DSC\".

Nine Australian service personnel were awarded the DSC for service in Vietnam.

Medal is finished to appear antique silver.