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Definition of Distinguished service medal
1. Noun. A United States military decoration for meritorious service in wartime duty of great responsibility.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Distinguished Service Medal
Literary usage of Distinguished service medal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Heroes All!: A Compendium of the Names and Official Citations of the by Harry R Stringer (1919)
"The war with Germany gave us our two other military decorations—the Distinguished
Service Cross and the distinguished service medal. ..."
2. Federal Statutes Annotated: Containing All the Laws of the United States, of by United States, Edward Thompson Company (1918)
"That no more than one medal of honor or one distinguished service cross or one
distinguished-service medal shall be issued to any one person; ..."
3. A Source-book of Military Law and War-time Legislation by John Henry Wigmore, United States War Dept. Committee on Education and Special Training (1919)
"That the President be, and he is hereby, further authorized to present, but not
in the name of Congress, a distinguished-service medal of appropriate design ..."
4. A Journal of the Great War by Charles Gates Dawes (1921)
"... he decorated Marshal Haig with the distinguished service medal of the United
States. CHARLES G. DA WES Brigadier-General, Engineers, NA November 21, ..."
5. History of the 89th Division, U. S. A.: From Its Organization in 1917 by George H. English, War Society of the 89th Division (1920)
"2-3 AMERICAN distinguished service medal The distinguished service medal was
awarded to those named below by the President for exceptionally meritorious ..."
6. Details of Military Medical Administration by Joseph Herbert Ford (1918)
"The distinguished-service cross and the distinguished-service medal may be awarded
posthumously to persons killed in the performance of acts meriting such ..."
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