From a letter written to Elizabeth Miller (Major Rowley-Hyde's niece), 22 April 2002, by Peter mentioned on the above photo.
Note: Major Francis Rowley-Hyde was usually called Frank.

" Frank was always known as Frank Rowley-Hyde and all that I remember is that he had a villa in Capri until the estate was embezzled by the trustee? And he worked in casinos in Monte Carlo?

He was a major in British Military Intelligence in both World Wars and had to escort Mata Hari from France to Britain in the 1st World War. He was badly wounded and he always talked of the "plate" replacing part of his skull. He received a medal of honour from the French Government and was mentioned in dispatches with an oak leaf on his ribbons.

I agree his date of marriage to Luna Craster was in 1932. (It was Luna's 3rd. marriage) and his death was in 1967 from a coronary thrombosis.

The only memento I have is an oil painting painted by F. Hyde approximately in 1880 which hung in the Australian Embassy in London and Frank said that it was painted by his father and hung in the Royal Academy at one time.

Frank and Luna came to South Africa in September 1939 I think after selling their Inn 'Jockey House' outside Bournemouth. He joined the British Army again as a major and went to Kenya to look after a Prisoner-of-war camp for the Italians."

Note: The painting referred to is "The old gold prospector" and is in Frank Hyde's virtual gallery.