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Originally Posted by High Wood
His promotion to W.O. could well have been helped by his having a D.C.M., he may not have been a W.O. when the medal was awarded.
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Looking at guaranteed DCM ribbons [Frank Richards DCM MM RWF for example] I can always see a paler centre stripe on ortho film.
There is the merest hint on the subject portrait, which might easily be curvature of silk catching the light.
Yes the DCM is the most likely but it is far from certain.
As for awarding the DCM to a substantive WO when the rules allowed for an MC, that is an interesting point, I have never seen research on the matter. The award of MM versus MC to a WO was a very complicated area, with the DCM lurking as a possibility.
A good project for a young enquiring mind ........... "did substantive WOs I or II get DCMs when serving as such?"