Editing Distinguished Service Order (section)

=== Quadruple recipients ===
{{See also|Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order}}
The following received the DSO with three [[Medal bar|Bars]] (''i.e.,'' awarded the DSO four times):
* [[Archibald Walter Buckle]], rose from [[naval rating]] in the [[Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve]] to [[Commander (Royal Navy)|command]] the Anson Battalion of the [[Royal Naval Division]] during the First World War<ref name=LG1919/>
* [[William Denman Croft]],<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=31183|date=14 February 1919|page=2363|supp=y}}</ref> First World War army officer
* [[William Robert Aufrere Dawson]], [[Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment]] during the First World War, wounded nine times and mentioned in despatches at least five times<ref name=LG1919/>
* Sir [[Basil Embry]], Second World War [[Royal Air Force]] officer
* Sir [[Bernard Freyberg]], also awarded the Victoria Cross, was decorated DSO three times during the First World War, and a fourth during the Second World War
* [[Edward Albert Gibbs]], Second World War [[destroyer]] [[Captain (Royal Navy)|captain]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36081|page=3056|date=2 July 1943}}</ref>
* [[Arnold Jackson (athlete)|Arnold Jackson]], First World War British Army officer and 1500 metre Olympic gold medal winner in 1912
* Sir [[Douglas Kendrew]], brigade commander in Italy, Greece and the Middle East between 1944 and 1946. Subsequently, appointed Governor of Western Australia
* [[Robert Sinclair Knox]], First World War British Army officer<ref name=LG1919>{{London Gazette|issue=31583| date=3 October 1919|page=12213| supp=y}}</ref>
* [[Frederick William Lumsden]], British First World War [[Royal Marines]] officer, also awarded the Victoria Cross
* [[Paddy Mayne]], [[Special Air Service]] commander in the Second World War and Irish [[Rugby football|rugby]] player
* Sir [[Richard Onslow (Royal Navy officer)|Richard George Onslow]], Second World War destroyer captain and later admiral<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36771 |supp=y|page=4977|date=27 October 1944}}</ref>
* [[Alastair Pearson]], a British Army officer appointed DSO four times within the space of two years during the Second World War
* [[James Brian Tait]], RAF pilot also awarded the [[Distinguished Flying Cross (United Kingdom)|DFC]] with Bar, completed 101 bombing missions in the Second World War
* [[Frederic John Walker]], Second World War Royal Navy captain and [[U-boat]] hunter
* [[Edward Allan Wood]],<ref>{{cite web |first=John |last=Bourne |work=Centre for First World War Studies |title=Edward Allan Wood |url=http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/warstudies/research/projects/lionsdonkeys/t.aspx |publisher=University of Birmingham |location=Birmingham, UK |access-date=6 December 2018}}</ref> First World War army officer