# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/arthur-barrett
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:50:08.702Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/arthur-barrett"
name: "Arthur Barrett"
slug: "arthur-barrett"
description: "Field Marshal Sir Arthur Arnold Barrett, was a British officer of the Indian Army. He saw action at the Siege of the Sherpur Cantonment in December 1879 and at the Battle of Kandahar in September 1880 during the Second Anglo-Afghan War and went on to serve in the Hunza-Nagar Campaign in 1891. During the First World War he was General Officer Commanding the Poona Division which successfully took Basra in Mesopotamia in November 1914 and then Al-Qurnah in Mesopotamia in December 1914. Returning to India in the spring of 1915, he spent the remainder of the First World War in command of Northern Army in which role he took part in operations against the Mahsuds in Spring 1917. He saw action again as the senior British commander on the ground during the Third Anglo-Afghan War in 1919 before retiring in May 1920."
tagline: "British general (1857-1926)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Field_Marshal_Sir_Arthur_Barrett.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1857-06-03"
deathDate: "1926-10-20"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.23
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.217496000000001
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Барретт, Артур"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%AB%D8%B1_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA_(%D8%B9%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%89)"
    title: "آرثر باريت (عسكرى)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Barrett"
    title: "Arthur Barrett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Barrett_(Indian_Army_officer)"
    title: "Arthur Barrett (Indian Army officer)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A2%D8%B1%D8%AA%D9%88%D8%B1_%D8%A2%D8%B1%D9%86%D9%88%D9%84%D8%AF_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AA"
    title: "آرتور آرنولد بارت"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Barrett"
    title: "Arthur Barrett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Barrett"
    title: "Arthur Barrett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Barrett"
    title: "Arthur Barrett"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3378403"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump