The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress July 9, 1918, takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star (Army Award) to Corporal William T. Jolly (MCSN: 320360), United States Marine Corps Reserve, for gallantry in action at New Georgia, Solomon Islands, wherein he flanked a hostile machine-gun position at great personal jeopardy to dislodge the enemy and extricate his regimental commander from the field of fire on 10 July 1943.