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BORN 19 August 1857
DIED 6 September 1898 AGE 41
VC Won 22-23 January 1879 AGE 21
Place VC Won Rorke’s Drift, Natal
War/Campaign The Zulu War
Name Robert Jones No. 716
VC Issue No. 369 Awards VC
Regiment 24th Regiment, 2nd (Warwickshire) Battalion, B Company
Later South Wales Borderers
Now 2nd Battalion Royal Regiment of Wales - disbanded July 2012
Rank VC Won Private
Rank End Of Career Private
Place Of Birth Penrose, Raglan or Tynewydd, Clytha, near Raglan, Gwent, Wales
Place Of Death In the grounds of Crossway House, Peterchurch, Herefordshire, England
Buried/Location Ashes St Peter's Churchyard, Church Road, Peterchurch, Herefordshire
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated 8 September 1898
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Unconsecrated ground
Gazetted 2 May 1879
VC Presented 11 September 1879 by General Sir Garnet Wolseley at Utrecht, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
Memorials
P Headstone, St Peter's Churchyard, Church Road, Peterchurch, Herefordshire
P Victoria Cross honours board, The Royal Welsh Museum, The Barracks, Brecon, Powys
By The Way…
He was found shot whilst out shooting, an inquest found it was suicide through unsound mind
VC Held By
The Lord Ashcroft collection I.W.M
Thank you to Nick & Lorna Martin for photos Rorke’s Drift
