General Pershing pinned Distinguished Service Cross No. 1 of the original type on Thomas Jolley, for his extraordinary heroism while a first-aid man with the 101st Field Artillery, 26th (Yankee) Division. The presentation took place in France in 1918 and recognized PFC. Jolley’s valor in rescuing the wounded under an intense artillery barrage in March of 1918.

Mr. Jolley resided in Massachusetts.