William Jones 24th Regiment 22nd January 1879 |
| Private William Jones,
2nd Battalion
24th Regiment (Zulu War 1879) To the heroic efforts of this man and his namesake Robert Jones, six out of seven patients were saved from the burning Hospital at Rorke's Drift on January 22, 1879. The fate of the seventh, together with the courageous defence of both these men, in a room of the building, against tremendous odds, is described in the record of Robert Jones.
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