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{{Short description|British Army general (1898–1975)}}
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| honorific_prefix = [[Major general|Major General]]
| name = Henry Lowrie Davies
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| birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1898|01|25}}
| birth_place = United Kingdom
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=y|1975|07|06|1898|01|25}}
| death_place = United Kingdom
| allegiance = {{ubl|[[British Indian Army]]| [[Pakistan Army]]}}
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| serviceyears = 1916-1948
| rank = [[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major General]]
| unit = [[39th Garhwal Rifles]]
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| commands = {{ubl|[[25th Indian Infantry Division|Commander 25th Indian Infantry Division]]| Deputy [[Chief of the General Staff (India)|Chief of the Indian General Staff]]| [[Commandant]] [[Pakistan Command and Staff College|Staff College, Quetta]]| [[brigade major|Brigade Major]] [[Peshawar Brigade]]| [[Chief of General Staff (Pakistan)|Deputy Chief of General Staff (Pakistan]]}}
| battles = {{ubl|[[World War I]]| [[Waziristan campaign (1921–1924)]]| [[Mohmand campaign of 1935|Mohmand campaign of 1933]]| [[South-East Asian theatre of World War II]]| [[Burma campaign]]| [[Third Arakan Campaign]]| [[World War II]]}}
| alma_mater = {{ubl|[[Dover College]]| [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]]| [[Pakistan Command and Staff College|Staff College, Quetta]]}}
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| laterwork = {{ubl|Assistant Director Investigation Division at [[Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (United Kingdom)|MAFF (UK)]]| [[Historian]] [[Cabinet Office]] Official Histories of the [[World War II|Second World War]]}}
| awards = {{plainlist|
* [[India General Service Medal (1909)]]<ref>https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/61932/Davies-Henry-Lowrie-Taffy.htm</ref>
* [[Victory Medal (United Kingdom)|Victory Medal (1914-1918)]]
* [[British War Medal|British War Medal (1914-1920)]]
* [[Military Cross]]<br /> [[Distinguished Service Order]]
* [[Order of the British Empire|Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire]]<ref>{{cite web | url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/D7386301 | title=Recommendation for Award for Davies, Henry Lowrie Rank: Lieutenant Colonel }}</ref>
* [[Order of the Bath|Companion of The Most Honourable Order of the Bath (CB)]]
* [[1939–1945 Star]]
* [[Burma Star|Burma Star (1945)]]
* [[War Medal 1939–1945]]
* [[Defence Medal (United Kingdom)|Defence Medal 1939-1945]]
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[[Major-general (United Kingdom)|Major General]] '''Henry Lowrie Davies''' {{post-nominals|CB|CBE|DSO|MC}} (25 January 1898 – 6 July 1975) was a [[British Indian Army]] officer, who commanded the [[25th Indian Division]] during the [[Second World War]]. Following the [[Partition of India]], he briefly served as Deputy Chief of the General Staff of Pakistan before returning to the United Kingdom to work as a civil servant.

==Early life and military career==
Davies was born in 1898, to a [[British Army]] officer. He was educated at [[Dover College]] and the [[Royal Military College, Sandhurst]], before joining the [[39th Garhwal Rifles]] (later the [[18th Royal Garhwal Rifles]]) in [[British Raj|India]] in 1916. He served with them in the [[Mesopotamian campaign]] of the [[First World War]] and as part of the "Army of the Black Sea" during the [[Turkish War of Independence]]. It was for 'distinguished service in the Field with the British Army of the Black Sea' that he was awarded the [[Military Cross]] as a captain with the 2/39th Garhwal Rifles.<ref>London Gazette 14 January 1921, to date from 31 October 1920</ref>{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=78}}

Returning to [[British India]], he was in service during [[Waziristan campaign (1921–1924)|operations in Waziristan]] in 1922–23. He attended the [[Pakistan Command and Staff College|Staff College, Quetta]] from 1928 to 1929. After Quetta, he was then posted as a staff officer grade 3 (GSO.3) to [[Northern Command (India)|Northern Command]].{{sfn|Smart|2005|p=78}} He later became [[brigade major|Brigade Major]] of the [[Peshawar Brigade]], with whom he saw active service during the [[Mohmand campaign of 1935|Mohmand campaign of 1933]]. It was for 'distinguished service rendered in the field in connection with the military operations against the Upper Mohmands, period July–October 1933' that he was mentioned in dispatches and awarded the [[Distinguished Service Order]].<ref>London Gazette 3 July 1934</ref> He then returned to senior staff duties, as a GSO.2 at the Military Department of the [[India Office]].<ref name="WWW">"DAVIES, Maj.-Gen. Henry Lowrie", in ''Who Was Who'' (2007). [http://ukwhoswho.com/view/article/oupww/whowaswho/U153749/ Online edition]</ref>

==Second World War==
In the early stages of the [[Second World War]], he was posted to operations in the North Atlantic as the GSO.1 of the force [[Invasion of Iceland|sent to occupy Iceland]]. However, he quickly returned to India in 1941, was appointed and Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire]] in the London Gazette of 1 July 1941, and in 1942 was appointed as a Brigadier on the General Staff of the Burma Army and [[Burma Corps]].<ref name="WWW"/> After heavy fighting in the [[Burma Campaign]], the existing Burmese Army had been pushed back to the Indian border and effectively ceased to exist in May 1942.{{citation needed|date=January 2014}} Davies was then appointed to command the newly created [[25th Indian Infantry Division]], forming in Bangalore to defend southern India against invasion. It trained for jungle operations through 1943, and was deployed during the [[Third Arakan Campaign]] in March 1944, pushing south along the Burmese coast. Davies relinquished command of the division in October 1944.<ref>{{cite book|last=Jeffreys|first=Alan|title=The British Army in the Far East : 1941-45|url=https://archive.org/details/britisharmyfarea00jeff|url-access=limited|year=2005|publisher=Osprey|location=Oxford|isbn=1841767905|pages=[https://archive.org/details/britisharmyfarea00jeff/page/n52 51]–52}}</ref>

Davies resumed a staff position after leaving the division, appointed as the Deputy [[Chief of the General Staff (India)|Chief of the Indian General Staff]]. He was appointed a [[Companion of the Bath]] as a temporary Major-General in the London Gazette of 13 September 1945. He was promoted to the substantive rank of Major-General with seniority of 15 November 1946 in the London Gazette of 1 April 1947. He then became commandant of the [[Staff College, Quetta]], and following the [[partition of India]] transferred to the [[Pakistan Army]] as Deputy Chief of the General Staff. He retired the following year in 1948.<ref name="WWW"/>

==Civil Service work==
Returning to the United Kingdom, Davies joined the [[Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food]], where he was assistant director of the investigation division. He remained at the Ministry for fourteen years, before moving to the Historical Section of the [[Cabinet Office]], where he worked as a historian on the Official Histories of the Second World War. He finally retired in 1972.<ref name="WWW"/>

==References==
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==Bibliography==
*{{cite book| first=Nick| last=Smart| title=Biographical Dictionary of British Generals of the Second World War| isbn=1844150496| year=2005| location=Barnesley| publisher=Pen & Sword}}

==External links==
*[https://www.generals.dk/general/Davies/Henry_Lowrie/Great_Britain.html Generals of World War II]

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