He was awarded the DistinguishedServiceOrder (DSO) in June 1944 and Mentioned in Despatches in January 1944.
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By his early thirties he successfully led a fleet of experimental new weapons in World War I - submarines - earning the DistinguishedServiceOrder with two bars.
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