Francis Davies (British Army officer)

Sir Francis Davies
Sir Francis Davies, c.1916
Born	1864
Died	1948 (aged 83–84)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1881–1923
Rank	General
Unit	Grenadier Guards
Commands held	1st Guards Brigade 8th Division Scottish Command
Battles/wars	Second Boer War First World War
Awards	Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Order of St Michael and St George Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order

General Sir Francis John Davies KCB, KCMG, KCVO (1864–1948) was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 8th Division during the First World War.

Davies was commissioned into the Worcestershire Militia in 1881. He transferred to the Grenadier Guards in 1884 becoming Adjutant to the 2 Bn Grenadier Guards in 1893. In 1897 he was posted to South Africa where he became Deputy Assistant Adjutant General for the Cape of Good Hope in 1897. He served in the Second Boer War as Deputy Assistant Adjutant General responsible for Intelligence at Army Headquarters in South Africa. He was appointed acting Commissioner of Police for Johannesburg in 1900.

He returned to the United Kingdom in 1902 and became Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General at the War Office in 1902 and Assistant Director of Military Operations in 1904. He was the British delegate to the International Conference on Wireless Telegraphy in Berlin in 1906 and then Assistant Quartermaster General for Western Command in 1907.

He was made General Officer Commanding 1 (Guards) Brigade in 1909 and then Director of Staff Duties at the War Office in 1913.