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« on: Tuesday 05 October 04 19:17 BST (UK) »
robert jones vc was my great great grandfather his daughter edith emily jones was my great grandmother,but thats all i know about the family,if anyone knows any info about this family it would be great to know
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« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 05 October 04 21:00 BST (UK) »
This website gives the name of Robert JONES's wife, the number of children, his date of birth & place of residence:

http://www.rorkesdriftvc.com/vc/jones.htm
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« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 19 April 05 16:27 BST (UK) »
I saved a Hereford Times article, dated Feb 21 1991, about him for some reason, and quote from some of it:

Robert Jones was a teenage hero of the Zulu War, fighting off the African hordes and suffering bullet and spear wounds.  Almost 20 years later a coroner's jury ruled that the Victoria Cross holder had taken his own life in a Herefordshire garden.  But was it suicide?  Still being fiercely defended in the Golden Valley village of Peterchurch today is the reputation for courage Jones earned on the dark continent.

Handed down from generation to generation has been the claim that Jones died in a tragic accident - a jolted gun succeeding where the warriors that were the pride of Zulu Chief Cetewayo had failed.

He won the VC in 1879 aged 19, he was of the 2nd Battalion 24 Foot, South Wales Borderers.

He died while employed by Mr De la Hay as a farm labourer. The vicar of the church, John de la Tour Davies has campaigned to have the suicide verdict quashed.  He claims that a vital piece of evidence was overlooked - Jones was carrying a box lock gun that could unintentionally be triggered if suddenly jarred.

He has a fine marble gravestone in Peterchurch, cared with devotion, and on Remembrance Sundays the Royal Legion lays a wreath at its foot.

[Wife's name Elizabeth].
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Bearman (Bocking), Blackwell Harrison Hough Prentice (Gt.Tey), Clarke Colman Halls Harris Windall (Coggeshall), Fincham (Aldham) Johnson (Feering Coggeshall Mersea Is. & Braintree), Kemp Watson (Braintree), Millar (Gt/Lt Tey), Parmenter (Aldham Gt Tey Bures St Mary), Pudney Seabrook (Coggeshall); Wade-Smith (Coggeshall Mersea Is. Colne Engaine Braintree), Whybrew (Aldham Coggeshall).
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Re: robert jones vc
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 08 March 07 17:22 GMT (UK) »
I dont know if this helps. I was a pupil at a  school in Kington in Herefordshire in the 1960's . The lad that I sat next to was someone called Michael Wilding who was from Vowchurch which is very near to Peterchurch. Michaels grandfather won a VC at the battle of Rorkes Drift ! The relationship was on his mothers side.I remember when Zulu first came out that he and his mother were featured in the Hereford Times and were given complimentary tickets. I havent seen Michael since school but I do know that he lives in Abergavenny . It may prove possible to contact him through the Friends Re-united website which is where I picked up where he is. Jones is obviously a common name  but the Peterchurch link is interesting.If you can trace the Hereford Times archive around the date the film was released it might confirm. There again it might have been someone else.   
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