The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star to Staff Sergeant Lloyd W. Wilcox, United States Army, for gallantry in connection with military operations against an opposing armed force while serving as a Medical Aidman with the 35th Infantry Division. When the rear of his battalion column, which was moving forward in Italy, in November 1943, was subjected to an intense enemy artillery concentration, Staff Sergeant Wilcox collected the scattered members of the aid station and directed the litter bearers to the temporary aid station. Then, because his group had lost contact with the moving column, he crossed through an area subjected to heavy enemy artillery fire, and later led a vehicle on two trips over an un-reconnoitered road to evacuate wounded men. He worked throughout a night of almost continual shelling, and his work was instrumental in saving the lives of three wounded and establishing contact between the medical aid personnel and the battalion.