robert jones vc

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Just a little Unknown Fact about the Ridley Scott Movie  "Gladiator"
Any expert who has watched the Stanley Baker Movie "Zulu"
Will recognise in the first few minutes of the first attack in Gladiator -
The Huns charging in the Forest towards to the Romans
They are Chanting and Bagging their Shields the SAME identical ZULU War Chant
that Ridley Scott cleverly hid into the Soundtrack
"Not alot of people know that !"

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Before you visit the Museum later this year
Check if it still exists.
I read earlier this year suggesting it was Closing


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-55750619


They only ever actually held and displayed 9 of the 11 V.C.s

Our Stagecoach Bus Driver in Brecon  - Nigel
Was researching Every V.C. awarded not just the 11 but All since awarded and visit their Grave

[24th of foot]

Yes, Lord Ashcroft has Robert Jones's V.C. in his collection.

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I grew up in Bootle Liverpool played as a Kid running around Ford Cemetery and this Headstone


https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/rorkes-drift-zulu-hero-thomas-6536397

Pre 1964 Rorke's Drift meant nothing to us kids or that Brecon and its Barracks and the 24th Museum would later have a part of my later life.

Lived for years in Hay on Wye and passed regularly Peterchurch Graveyard and Jones' Headstone

Small World