Major General Henry Rodolph Davies, CB (21 September 1865 – 4 January 1950) was a British Army officer who commanded the 11th (Northern) Division during the First World War.
His grandfather was General Francis John Davies and his great-grandfather was Admiral of the Fleet Sir Thomas Byam Martin.
[5] Davies joined the British Army, initially being commissioned as a lieutenant into the 4th (Militia) Battalion of the Worcestershire Regiment in January 1883.
In September 1911 he was promoted to lieutenant colonel[10] and ordered back to Britain to take command of the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry.
[11][4] On the outbreak of the First World War in the summer of 1914, the battalion was based at Aldershot and was mobilised as part of the 5th Brigade, 2nd Division, in the British Expeditionary Force (BEF).
[15] During the war, Davies was mentioned in despatches eight times and rose rapidly in rank, from a lieutenant colonel to major general.