Francis Kelly (British Army officer)

Major-General Francis Henry Kelly CB CMG (1859–1937) was Commander of British Troops in South China.

Military career
Kelly was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1879. He took part in the Burma expedition in 1885 and then went to the North West Frontier in India in 1897 where he participated in the Tirah Campaign.

He was appointed Assistant Adjutant General in Quetta District in 1900, Commander of the Karachi Brigade in 1905 and Commander of the Ahmednagar Brigade in 1907.

He was made Commander of British Troops in South China in 1913.

He served in World War I becoming General Officer Commanding 69th Division and retiring in 1918.

After the War he became a Regional Director at the Ministry of Pensions.