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

[2][3] 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.

[3] During the interwar period Smith became a GSO at London District and then adjutant at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from 1921.

[3] He was appointed General Officer Commanding-in-Chief for Persia and Iraq Command in 1944,[3] and awarded the Soviet Order of Kutuzov, 2nd Class.

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