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].
