John Fielding won the Victoria Cross for his bravery during the Anglo-Zulu war at Rorkes Drift in 1879.
He died in November 1932 and was buried in the graveyard at St Michael’s Church in Llantarnam.
Watch this rare video footage of his funeral
His citation for the Victoria Cross read:
Private John Williams was posted with Private Joseph Williams, and Private William Horrigan, 1st Battalion 24th Regiment, in a distant room of the hospital, which they held for more than an hour, so long as they had a round of ammunition left: as communication was for the time cut off, the Zulus were enabled to advance and burst open the door ; they dragged out Private Joseph Williams and two of the patients, and assagaied them. Whilst the Zulus were occupied with the slaughter of these men a lull took place, during which Private John Williams, who, with two patients, were the only men now left alive in this ward, succeeded in knocking a hole in the partition, and in taking the two patients into the next ward, where he found Private Hook.
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