{{Short description|Royal Air Force Air-Vice Marshal (1897-1970)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox military person |name=Arthur Ledger |image= |image_size= |alt= |caption= |nickname= |birth_date= 29 August 1897 |birth_place= Canterbury, Kent, England |death_date= 6 May 1970 |death_place= Bridge, Kent, England |burial_place= |allegiance= United Kingdom |branch= British Army (1918–1921)<br />Royal Air Force (1921–1952) |service_years= 1918–1952 |rank= Air Vice Marshal |unit= |commands=No. 40 Squadron<br />No. 54 Group<br />No. 28 Group<br />No. 23 Group |battles= First World War<br />Second World War |awards= Companion of the Order of the Bath<br />Commander of the Order of the British Empire |relations= |other_work= }} Air Vice Marshal '''Arthur Percy Ledger''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|sep=,|CB|CBE}} (29 August 1897 – 6 May 1970) was a senior Royal Air Force officer.

==RAF career== Ledger was commissioned into the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment on 29 May 1918.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=30100|page=5308|date=29 May 1917|supp=y}}</ref> He was deployed to France for service in the First World War.<ref name=air>{{cite web|url= http://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Ledger.htm|title=Air Vice Marshal A.P. Ledger|publisher=Air of Authority - A History of RAF Organisation|accessdate=28 June 2020}}</ref>

After transferring to the RAF as an observer officer in 1919, he became officer commanding, No. 40 Squadron in August 1935 and then served in the Second World War as senior air officer, HQ Air Forces in India from July 1940, as Deputy Director of Ground Defence from March 1942 and as Director of Ground Defence from later that year.<ref name=air/>

He went on to be Air Officer Commanding, No. 54 Group in January 1946, Air Officer Commanding, No. 28 Group later that year and Air Officer Commanding, No. 23 Group in February 1947.<ref name=air/> His last appointment was as Air Officer Commanding, Headquarters, RAF Flying Training Command in February 1950.<ref name=air/>

In retirement he served as a Gentleman Usher to the Queen.<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=41865|page=7091|date=10 November 1949}}</ref>

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