Major-General Francis Henry Kelly CB CMG (26 July 1859 – 18 March 1937) was Commander of British Troops in South China.

Kelly was commissioned into the Royal Engineers as a lieutenant on 6 April 1879.

[1] He took part in the Burma expedition in 1885, was promoted to captain on 1 April 1889, and then went to the North West Frontier in India in 1897 where he participated in the Tirah Campaign, during which he was promoted to major on 1 October 1897.

[2] He was appointed temporary assistant adjutant-general in Quetta District on 23 June 1900 (while the actual A.A.G.

[1] After that he became Commander of British Troops in South China in 1913[5] and General Officer Commanding 69th (2nd East Anglian) Division in November 1915 during the First World War before retiring in 1918.