General Sir Francis John Davies, KCB, KCMG, KCVO (3 July 1864 – 18 March 1948) was a senior British Army officer who commanded the 8th Division during the First World War.

[5][6] He transferred from the Worcesters to a Regular Army commission in the Grenadier Guards, the same regiment in which his father and grandfather had served, as a lieutenant in May 1884.

[14] Davies returned to the United Kingdom in 1902 and was temporarily employed in the intelligence department until he became deputy assistant quartermaster general (DAQMG) at the War Office on 7 September 1902.

[6] He was the British delegate to the International Conference on Wireless Telegraphy in Berlin in 1906 and then, promoted to lieutenant colonel while serving on half-pay,[17] assistant quartermaster general (AQMG) for Western Command in 1907.

[28] Towards the end of July Davies was posted away from the fighting in France and Belgium to take over the command of VIII Corps, then heavily engaged in the Gallipoli campaign, from Lieutenant-General Aylmer Hunter-Weston.

[13] He brought with him from the fierce fighting on the Western Front valuable combat experience and, it is said, "his contribution to what was a very difficult period (and the greater part) of the campaign has been largely overlooked.

[13] In the aftermath of the evacuation of British and Allied forces from Gallipoli in January 1916, Davies was moved on to succeed Lieutenant General The Hon.