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Private Robert Jones and Private William Jones
Zulu War Privates Robert and William Jones |
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Robert Jones and William Jones, Win their Victoria Cross at Rorkes Drift. William Jones Vc and Robert Jones VC of the 2nd Battalion 24th regiment, South Wales Borderes. Private Robert Jones. Decorated for conspicuous bravery and devotion to the wounded at Rorke's drift. Private Robert and William Jones, posted in a room of the Hospital facing the hill, kept up a steady fire against enormous odds, and while one worked to cut a hole through the partition into the next room, the other shot Zulu after Zulu through the loophooled walls, using his own and his comrades rifle alternatively when the barrels became to hot to hold owing to the incessant firing. By their united heroic efforts six out of the seven patients were saved by being carried through the broken partition. the seventh, sergeant Maxwell being delirious, refused to be helped, and on Robert Jones re turning to take him by force he found him being stabbed by the Zulus in his bed, Robert Jones died in 1898 in Peterchurch Herefordshire . Both men were awarded the Victoria Cross
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