Major-General Sir Borlase Elward Wyndham Childs, KCMG, KBE, CB (15 December 1876 – 27 November 1946) was a British Army officer who also served as Assistant Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis from 1921 to 1928.
After two years, the battalion was finally posted to South Africa, where Childs was appointed adjutant and quartermaster of the rest camp at Stellenbosch.
[3] In November 1910, he accompanied his old friend, Macready, by then Director of Personal Services, as his staff officer to Tonypandy in South Wales, where rioting had broken out.
[4] In April 1914, he was appointed deputy assistant adjutant-general at the War Office and,[5] in September 1914, he was appointed assistant adjutant-general with the British Expeditionary Force (BEF) and promoted to the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel and shortly afterwards to the temporary rank of colonel.
In 1916, Childs returned to the War Office as assistant adjutant-general, mainly dealing with conscientious objectors, and later the same year was appointed Director of Personal Services, in charge of Army discipline.