Brigadier-General Sir Smith Hill Child, 2nd Baronet, GCVO, CB, CMG, DSO, DL (19 September 1880 – 11 November 1958) was an officer in the British Army and a Conservative Party politician.

The battalion was embodied for full-time service in the Second Boer War on 5 December that year,[4] and in early March 1900 left Queenstown on the SS Oriental for South Africa.

[12] On 8 February 1910, Hill Child was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in the part-time Territorial Force and was appointed commanding officer of the II North Midland Brigade in the Royal Field Artillery.

This group supported two battalions (1/5th and 1/7th (Robin Hoods)) of the Sherwood Foresters, but the German wire entanglements were in dead ground and could not be seen by artillery observers.

[14] On 13 March 1918 the Commander Royal Artillery (CRA) of 46th Division was wounded, and Hill Child was appointed to act in his place.

[19] The first of these creeping barrages actually progressed at twice the normal pace while the infantry rushed downhill to seize the canal crossings; it was described in the Official History as 'one of the finest ever seen'.

[18] The attack was a success, and by the afternoon the field artillery batteries were crossing the canal by the bridges that had been captured or thrown across, and were coming into action on the far side.