Major General William Cross Barratt CB CSI DSO (2 June 1862 – 2 April 1940) was a senior British Army and British Indian Army officer.

Born in Calcutta, Barratt was educated at Bedford School.

In 1890 he took part in the Zhob Valley Expedition in India, and fought in Waziristan between 1894 and 1895.

He served in East Africa in 1896, in Zanzibar and Uganda between 1897 and 1898, in China during the Boxer Rebellion between 1900 and 1901, and was present at the Relief of Peking.

[2] Major General William Cross Barratt retired from the British Indian Army in 1920.