Robert Jones
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For Robert Tyre Jones Jnr, the US golfer, see Bobby Jones
Robert Jones (died 1898 Herefordshire)was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, earned during the 1879 battle of battle of Rorke's Drift, South Africa, part of the Anglo-Zulu War.
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 returning to take him by force he found him being stabbed by the Zulus in his bed. Robert Jones died in 1898 in Peterchurch Herefordshire.