Frank Uhr was born in Brisbane to an early Queensland pioneering squatter family, raised in Clayfield, and educated at Downlands College, Toowoomba. On leaving school, he entered the Advertising Industry in 1965, and opened Frank Uhr Advertising in Paddington in 1982.
For the next 25 years this small, robust Advertising Agency offered local expertise, marketing advice, and creative excellence to Queensland, National and International based clients.
Researching his pioneering origins in pre-separation Queensland, he published Once Upon a Colonial Time, a family history, in September 1999 and also helped John Steele with his publication The Petersons and the Uhrs; an Australian Family since 1825. With that research of Indigenous and European history in the Lockyer, Darling Downs and Brisbane, he chronicled Moreton Bay as it changed from convict to free settlement, and with it, the impact that had on the Aboriginal population.
Concentrating on The Battle of One Tree Hill and the guerrilla war that raged in the south east, Uhr has written many articles published in RHSQ Journal and other magazines, and also delivered presentations to Universities and Historical Societies across South Eastern Queensland, and now, co-authoring this book, with Ray Kerkhove, titled, The Battle of One Tree Hill.
Frank was awarded a Graduate Diploma in 2008, and a MA in History at University of Queensland in December, 2009.