Arthur Smith

Lieutenant-General Sir Arthur Francis Smith, (9 December 1890 – 8 August 1977) was a senior British Army officer who served during the Second World War.

Military career Smith attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, and was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Coldstream Guards on 3 September 1910, alongside Charles Loyd, like Smith, a future general. He served in the First World War as an adjutant with the 3rd Battalion, Coldstream Guards on the Western Front from 1914 before becoming a General Staff Officer (GSO) in France in 1915. He became commandant at the Guards Depot in 1924, and then moved back to London District as a GSO2 in April 1927. He was made commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, Coldstream Guards in 1930 and then commander of the Coldstream Guards and Regimental District in 1934. at Middle East Command until 1942 when he became Major-General commanding the Brigade of Guards and General Officer Commanding London District.

After the war Smith was made General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Eastern Command, India in 1945.

Publications While a captain with the Coldstream Guards, Smith was adjutant of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1921 to 1924. During that time he realised the need for a book to help Gentlemen Cadets understand their bibles. He therefore compiled 100 Days Bible Study, of which over 120,000 copies have been printed, and which has been translated in whole or in part into several different languages. It is still in print today.