Major General Henry Lowrie Davies (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 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. Returning to British India, he was in service during operations in Waziristan in 1922–23. He attended the Staff College, Quetta from 1928 to 1929. After Quetta, he was then posted as a staff officer grade 3 (GSO.3) to Northern Command. He later became Brigade Major of the Peshawar Brigade, with whom he saw active service during the 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. He then returned to senior staff duties, as a GSO.2 at the Military Department of the India Office. 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 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. 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. Davies was then appointed to command the newly created 25th Indian Infantry Division, forming in Bangalore to defend southern India against invasion.