Arthur Barratt

Sir Arthur Barratt
Sir Arthur Barratt
	Croix de guerre (France); Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta (Poland)
Other work	Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State

Second World War

. He acquired the nickname "Ugly".

RAF career

Barratt was

General Officer Commanding Shanghai in April 1927 before joining the Air Staff at Headquarters No. 22 Group in November 1927.^[1] 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 RAF India in 1932.^[1] 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.^[1]

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.^[1] 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.^[2] He continued his war service as Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Army Co-operation Command in November 1940 and Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief at Technical Training Command in 1943.^[1] 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^[3] before retiring in 1947.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Barratt
^ History of the Battle of Britain: The Battle of France Archived 21 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine
^ Commanders to participate Flight International, 23 May 1946

Military offices
Preceded by Wilfrid Freeman	Commandant of the RAF Staff College, Andover 1936–1939	Vacant Second World War declared
Preceded by Sir John Babington	Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief Technical Training Command 1943–1945	Succeeded by Sir Ralph Sorley
Preceded by Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt	Inspector-General of the RAF 1945–1947	Succeeded by Sir Norman Bottomley
Court offices
Preceded by Sir Lewis Halliday	Gentleman Usher to the Sword of State 1946–1966	Succeeded by Sir William Stirling

[air-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Air of Authority – A History of RAF Organisation – Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Barratt

[2] History of the Battle of Britain: The Battle of France Archived 21 September 2010 at the Wayback Machine

[3] Commanders to participate Flight International, 23 May 1946

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