Admiral Francis Herbert Mitchell, CB, DSO (10 January 1876 – 7 March 1946) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded the 3rd Battle Squadron and was President of the Dardanelles Committee in 1919.

[1] Mitchell joined the Royal Navy in 1889,[2] and was appointed lieutenant for gunnery duties on the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Mars on 10 May 1902.

[3] Mitchell served in the First World War and, as commanding officer of the protected cruiser HMS Eclipse, saw action in the Dardanelles Campaign in 1915.

[2] In between these commissions, the Admiralty created a committee of officers in early 1919 to identify and summarise important lessons learned from the First World War.

[5] Submitted in October 1919, the "Mitchell Report" as it became known drew a number of conclusions that were of relevance to future amphibious landings, including those of D-Day.