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{{Infobox military person<br />
|name = Henry Rodolph Davies<br />
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|death_date = {{death date and age|1950|01|04|1865|09|21|df=yes}}<br />
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|rank = [[Major-General]]<br />
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|allegiance = {{UK}}<br />
|branch = [[Image:Flag of the British Army.svg|23px]] [[British Army]]<br />
|commands = 2nd Battalion, [[Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]]<br />[[11th (Northern) Division]]<br />[[49th (West Riding) Infantry Division|49th (West Riding) Division]]<br />
|battles = [[Third Anglo-Burmese War]]<br />[[Second Boer War]]<br />[[First World War]]<br />
|awards = [[Order of the Bath|Companion of the Order of the Bath]], [[Mention in Dispatches|Mentioned in Dispatches]]<br />
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[[Major-General]] '''Henry Rodolph Davies''', {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CB}} (21 September 1865 – 4 January 1950) was a [[British Army]] officer, who commanded the [[11th (Northern) Division]] during the [[First World War]].<br />
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==Military career==<br />
He was born in 1865, the younger son of Henry Fanshawe Davies, an army officer who would later rise to the rank of Lieutenant-General. His grandfather was General Francis John Davies (died 1878) and his great-grandfather was Admiral of the Fleet Sir [[Thomas Byam Martin]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Walford |first1=Edward |title=The County Families of the United Kingdom Or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland |date=1876 |page=265 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wt2wGQa8iDUC&q=Henry+Fanshawe+Davies&pg=PA265 |access-date=8 May 2019 |language=en}}</ref> The family seat was [[Elmley Castle]], [[Pershore]], [[Worcestershire]]. His elder brother was General [[Francis Davies (British Army officer)|Sir Francis Davies)]]. Henry junior was educated at [[Eton College|Eton]], where he was proficient in Oriental languages.<ref name=mullaney>Mullaney, p. 45</ref><br />
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Davies joined the Army, and was sent to British-controlled Burma in 1887 and to Siam in 1892. In 1893 he was attached to a survey unit which surveyed the passes between Burma and China which located the Crouching Tiger Pass, the Heavenly Horse Pass and the Han Dragon Pass. On completion of the team's objectives Davies remained in China to explore the Yunnan area. On his return to England he was asked to survey a potential railway route from India to the Yangtze river via Yunnan and in 1898 returned to Burma. By mid-1899 his team had travelled nearly 2,500 miles of the proposed route, mapping the terrain in detail. He wrote a book about his experiences and in 1906 was awarded the [[Royal Geographical Society]]'s [[Murchison Award]].<ref name=mullaney/><br />
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He was involved in the [[Tirah Campaign]] (1897–98), where he was [[mentioned in despatches]], the [[Boxer Rebellion]] (1900), and the [[Second Boer War]] (1901–1902). In 1911 he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and ordered back to Britain to take command of the 2nd Battalion, [[Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry]].<ref name="WWW">"DAVIES, Maj.-Gen. Henry Rodolph", in ''Who Was Who'' (2007). [http://ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U224512/ Online edition]</ref><br />
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On the outbreak of the [[First World War]], the 2nd Battalion was at Aldershot and was mobilised as part of the [[5th Brigade (United Kingdom)|5th Brigade]], [[2nd Division (United Kingdom)|2nd Division]], in the [[British Expeditionary Force (World War I)|Expeditionary Force]].<ref>Edmonds, p. 417</ref> Davies remained in command of the battalion through the first campaigns on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]], until promoted to take command of the [[3rd Brigade (United Kingdom)|3rd Brigade]] in 1915. He remained with the brigade until transferred to the [[33rd Brigade (United Kingdom)|33rd Brigade]] in the [[11th (Northern) Division]] in 1917. In May of that year, after Major-General [[Archibald Ritchie (British Army officer)|Archibald Ritchie]] was wounded, Davies took command of the division; he commanded it until the Armistice and relinquished command when it was demobilised in 1919. During the war, he was [[Mention in Dispatches|mentioned in dispatches]] eight times and rose from a Lieutenant-Colonel to Major-General.<ref name="WWW"/><br />
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After the end of the war, he commanded the reformed [[49th (West Riding) Infantry Division|49th (West Riding) Division]] in the [[Territorial Army (United Kingdom)|Territorial Army]] and retired in 1923. He was invested as a Companion of the [[Order of the Bath]]. He died in 1950.<ref name="WWW"/><br />
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*{{cite book |title=Military Operations France and Belgium 1914: Mons, the Retreat to the Seine, the Marne and the Aisne August–October 1914 |author-link=J. E. Edmonds |last=Edmonds |first=J. E. |publisher=Macmillan |year=1922 |url=https://archive.org/details/militaryoperatio01edmouoft |series=[[History of the Great War]] }}<br />
*{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3MlDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA45|title=Coming to Terms with the Nation: Ethnic Classification in Modern China|first=Thomas|last= Mullaney|publisher=University of California Press|year=2010|isbn=978-0520272743}}<br />
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