Distinguished Service Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated 1945, hallmarks for London 1948, good very fine £600-£800

An example of a Distinguished Service Cross that would have been presented at an investiture following the end of the war. These were usually to returned prisoners of war whose awards had been gazetted in their absence, but presented later at one of the many investitures held in the years after until the backlog was cleared. The officially engraved date reflects the date of gazetting, not that of investiture.