serviceyears branch death_date allegiance birth_date death_place image_size placeofburial_label placeofburial rank image name caption relations birth_place unit nickname article_title birth_name
1873 -- 1896 ; 1899 -- 1903 united kingdom y 21 september 1905 9 april 1850 united kingdom y 9 april 1850 groot schuur , cape colony 200 place of burial dalham church , newmarket colonel col. f.w.rhodes.jpg frank rhodes '' col. f. w. rhodes '' cecil rhodes saint england michaels , bishop 's stortford , hertfordshire , 1st royal dragoons frank frank rhodes -lrb- british army officer -rrb-
 francis william rhodes
frank rhodes -lrb- british army officer -rrb-

colonel francis william rhodes , cb , dso -lrb- 9 april 1850 -- 21 september 1905 -rrb- , better known as `` frank '' , is perhaps the best known member of the rhodes family after his brother cecil .
trained as a soldier from his youth , he participated in a considerable amount of conflict in different parts of the world .
after graduating from the royal military college , sandhurst , he joined the 1st royal dragoons in 1873 and served the british army for 23 years .
he participated in the sudan campaign , accompanied the nile expedition to khartoum in the abortive effort to relieve general charles george gordon , and was present at the battles of el teb and tamai .
at the battle of abu klea , he distinguished himself when he had several horses shot from under him in the course of the engagement .
he was awarded several medals and clasps , including the distinguished service order .
rhodes filled various staff appointments .
from 1890 -- 93 , he served as military secretary to lord harris while he was governor of bombay , and in 1893 he was chief of staff on sir gerald herbert portal 's mission to uganda .
rhodes also served for a brief period as administrator of mashonaland and as the appointed military member of the council of four in the government of matabeleland under leander starr jameson .
the jameson raid was perhaps the most trying event in rhodes 's career .
he was a leading member of the reform committee -lrb- transvaal -rrb- , in johannesburg , attempting to liberalise the government of transvaal republic president paul kruger on behalf of the uitlander population living in transvaal .
following the jameson raid in november 1895 , the members of the reform committee were charged with high treason .
rhodes , john hays hammond , douglas gilfillan and other leaders of the committee were sentenced to death in april 1896 .
this was later commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment , and in june 1896 , all members of the committee were released on payment of a heavy fine .
as a punishment for his support of jameson the british army placed rhodes on the retired list and barred him from active involvement in army business .
after his release from jail , he immediately joined his brother cecil and the british south africa company in the second matabele war .
in 1898 he joined field marshal earl kitchener 's nile expedition as war correspondent for `` the times '' .
at the battle of omdurman on 2 september he was shot and severely wounded in the right arm .
for his services during that campaign he was restored to the army active list .
during the second boer war , rhodes continued to work as a war correspondent .
he was trapped for the duration in the siege of ladysmith and participated in the relief of mafeking .
in 1899 , he was sued by a man named burrows for falsely representing the purpose of the raid and therefore convincing him to participate in the raid , wherein he lost a leg .
his suit for # 3000 in damages was successful .
with the death of his brother cecil in 1902 , frank took possession of dalham hall , and erected a hall in the village in cecil 's memory .
after retiring from the army in 1903 , he served as managing director of the african trans-continental telegraph company until his death in 1905 in groot schuur , cape colony .
