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{{Infobox military person<br />
|name= Sir Arthur Barratt<br />
|image= Arthur Barratt and Hurricane IWM TR 242.jpg<br />
|image_size= 300px<br />
|alt= <br />
|caption= Air Marshal Barratt in front of a Hurricane which he often used to visit his airfields<br />
|nickname= "Ugly"<br />
|birth_date= {{birth date|1891|02|25|df=yes}}<br />
|birth_place= [[Peshawar]], [[British India]]<br />
|death_date= {{death date and age|1966|11|04|1891|02|25|df=yes}}<br />
|death_place= <br />
|placeofburial= <br />
|allegiance= United Kingdom<br />
|branch= [[British Army]] (1910–18)<br/>[[Royal Air Force]] (1918–47)<br />
|serviceyears= 1910–1947<br />
|rank= [[Air Chief Marshal]]<br />
|unit= <br />
|commands= [[Inspector-General of the RAF]] (1945–47)<br/>[[RAF Technical Training Command|Technical Training Command]] (1943–45)<br/>[[RAF Army Cooperation Command|Army Cooperation Command]] (1940–43)<br/>[[British Air Forces in France]] (1940)<br/>[[RAF Staff College, Andover]] (1936–39)<br/>No. 1 (Indian) Group (1931–32)<br/>School of Army Co-operation (1926–27)<br/>3rd (Corps) Wing (1917–19)<br/>[[No. 49 Squadron RAF|No. 49 Squadron]] (1917)<br/>[[No. 6 Squadron RAF|No. 6 Squadron]] (1916–17)<br />
|battles= [[First World War]]<br/>[[Second World War]]<br />
|awards= {{nowrap|[[Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath]]}}<br/>[[Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George]]<br/>[[Military Cross]]<br/>[[Mentioned in Despatches]] (6)<br/>[[Order of the Crown (Belgium)|Officer of the Order of the Crown]] (Belgium)<br/>[[Croix de guerre (Belgium)|Croix de guerre]] (Belgium)<br/>[[Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour]] (France)<br/>[[Croix de guerre 1939–1945 (France)|Croix de guerre]] (France)<br/>[[Order of Polonia Restituta|Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta]] (Poland)<br />
|relations= <br />
|laterwork= [[Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State]]<br />
}}<br />
[[Air Chief Marshal]] '''Sir Arthur Sheridan Barratt''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|KCB|CMG|MC|DL}} (25 February 1891 – 4 November 1966) was an officer in the [[Royal Flying Corps]] during the [[First World War]] and a senior commander in the [[Royal Air Force]] during the [[Second World War]]. He acquired the nickname "Ugly".<br />
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==RAF career==<br />
Barratt was [[Officer (armed forces)|commissioned]] into the [[Royal Field Artillery]] in 1910 and transferred to the [[Royal Flying Corps]] in 1914.<ref name=air>[http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Barratt.htm Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Barratt]</ref> He served in the [[First World War]], commanding [[No. 6 Squadron RAF|No. 6 Squadron]] and then [[No. 49 Squadron RAF|No. 49 Squadron]] before taking over 3rd (Corps) Wing.<ref name=air/> After the war he became Assistant Commandant at the [[Royal Air Force College Cranwell]] and then Staff Officer for Administration at Headquarters [[No. 3 Group RAF|No. 3 Group]].<ref name=air/> He was made Commandant at the School of Army Co-operation in 1926 and Air Staff Officer to the [[General Officer Commanding]] [[Shanghai]] in April 1927 before joining the Air Staff at Headquarters [[No. 22 Group RAF|No. 22 Group]] in November 1927.<ref name=air/> He went on to be Chief Instructor at the [[RAF Staff College, Andover]] in 1929, Air Officer Commanding No. 1 (Indian) Group in 1931 and Senior Air Staff Officer at Headquarters [[Indian Air Force|RAF India]] in 1932.<ref name=air/> After that he was Director of Staff Duties at the [[Air Ministry]] in 1935 and then returned to the [[RAF Staff College, Andover]], as Commandant in 1936.<ref name=air/><br />
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He served in the [[Second World War]] as Principal RAF Liaison Officer to the French Air Force and then Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief [[British Air Forces in France]].<ref name=air/> When he heard that on 14 May 1940, forty of the seventy-one British bombers that had taken off did not return, he is said to have cried.<ref>[http://www.battleofbritainbeacon.org/history/battle-of-france.cfm History of the Battle of Britain: The Battle of France] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100921030407/http://www.battleofbritainbeacon.org/history/battle-of-france.cfm |date=21 September 2010 }}</ref> He continued his war service as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at [[RAF Army Cooperation Command|Army Co-operation Command]] in November 1940 and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at [[RAF Technical Training Command|Technical Training Command]] in 1943.<ref name=air/> His last appointment was as [[Inspector-General of the RAF]] in 1945, in which capacity he took part in the Victory Parade in June 1946<ref>[http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1946/1946%20-%201034.html Commanders to participate] Flight International, 23 May 1946</ref> before retiring in 1947.<ref name=air/><br />
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==References==<br />
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