AMERICAN D.S.M.
AWARDED POSTHUMOUSLY TO BRITISH BRIGADIER. SECRETARY TO COMBINED CHIEFS OF STAFF. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, March 28. President Roosevelt has awarded the United States Distinguished Service Medal posthumously to Brigadier Vivian Dykes, C.8.E., of the British Army and formerly British Secretary to the Combined Chiefs of Staff. Brigadier Dykes was killed on active service in January this year. The American D.S.M. is awarded only for exceptionally meritorious service, in duty of great responsibility, while serving with the Army of the United States. The citation states: “As British Secretary to the Combined Chiefs of Staff, Brigadier Dykes made fin outstanding contribution to the Allied cause and to the war effort of the United States. His sympathetic understanding of American problems and aims, his broad knowledge and experience of British military and Cabinet procedure and his great organisational ability contributed in an important measure to the expeditious establishment of the organisation of the Cambined Chiefs of Staff on a Sound basis.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1943, Page 4
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166AMERICAN D.S.M. Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 March 1943, Page 4
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