2-358-267 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Soldier and Correspondent', Colonel Francis William Rhodes DSO, 1899. The brother of Cecil Rhodes, Francis William Rhodes distinguishe himself on the expedition to the Sudan that failed to save General Gordon. In 1898 he joined Field Marshal Earl Kitchener's Nile Expedition as correspondent for The Times and was wounded at the Battle of Omdurman. He was present at the Siege of Ladysmith and the relief of Mafeking in the Second Boer War. A print from Vanity Fair, June 8th 1899.