As Officer Commanding (OC) Medical Squadron of the Commando Logistic Regiment RM, Jolly was Senior Medical Officer of 3 Commando Brigade RM and commanded the field hospital at Ajax Bay. The facilities at Ajax Bay were very poor and despite dust, dirt, poor lighting & the presence of two unexploded bombs, only three of the 580 British soldiers and Marines wounded in action, died of their wounds.
After the war Jolly wrote the book The Red and Green Life Machine about his experiences.[1]
He remains the only serviceman to be decorated by both sides after the conflict, where in received an OBE from the UK and Oficial Orden de Mayo from Argentina. While visiting Argentina in 1998 Jolly had sent ahead a list of Argentine casualties and asked the authorities there what had become of them. As a result, the Argentine Foreign Ministry discovered the truth about the battlefield medical care of their wounded, invited over fifty of them to the ceremony in Buenos Aires, and then appointed him as an Oficial (Officer) in the Orden de Mayo (Order of May) in recognition.[2]
Her Majesty the Queen personally authorized him to wear this "on all occasions" on behalf of the three hundred British Naval, Royal Marines & Army medics involved in the War.[3]
This is the only serving man in history to be decorated by both sides of an armed conflict. Shame you cant read about people like this in day to day media, instead you get this cunt