Bar to DFC | Subsequent Distinguished Flying Cross Award Select Full Size or Miniature Bar Size:FS Full Size wounds or other disabilities due

wounds or other disabilities due to service or by cessation of hostilities on 2 September 1945

or captured and later released or escaped

Overseas service includes the Middle East

Completed 30 days continuous or 60 days accumulated service (60 days accumulated service must be achieved within a two year period) in the designated Area of Operation

Bar to DFC | Subsequent Distinguished Flying Cross Award Select Full Size or Miniature Bar Size:FS Full Size wounds or other disabilities dueA bar with a central eagle is awarded for second and subsequent awards of the DFC. Recipients are entitled to use the postnominals 'D. F. C. and Bar' or 'D. F. C. and Bars'. From 1918 to 1972 the DFC was awarded to 2,391 Australians, along with 144 first Bars and five second Bars for subsequent awards. Most of the awards were won in World War II.