Military Secretary to the India Office
The Military Secretary to the India Office was responsible for the recruitment of British and other European nationals to the officer ranks of the Indian Army.[1]
Military Secretaries to the India Office
The Military Secretaries were as follows:[2]
- Major James Salmond 1809–1837
- Philip Melvill 1837–1858
- Colonel William Baker, 1859–1861
- Major-General Sir Thomas Pears, 1861–1877
- Colonel Allen Johnson, 1877–1889
- Major-General Sir Oliver Newmarch, 1889–1899
- Major-General Sir Edward Stedman, 1899–1907
- Lieutenant-General Sir O'Moore Creagh, 1907–1909
- Lieutenant-General Sir Beauchamp Duff, 1909–1914
- General Sir Edmund Barrow, 1914–1917
- Lieutenant-General Sir Herbert Cox, 1917–1920
- Lieutenant-General Sir Alexander Cobbe, 1920–1926
- Field Marshal Sir Claud Jacob, 1926–1930
- General Sir Alexander Cobbe, 1930–1931
- Major-General Sydney Muspratt, 1931–1933
- Lieutenant-General Sir John Coleridge, 1933–1936
- Major-General Sir Roger Wilson, 1936–1937
- Lieutenant-General Sir Sydney Muspratt, 1937–1941
- Major-General Rob Lockhart, 1941–1943
- Lieutenant-General George Molesworth, 1943–1944
- General Sir Mosley Mayne, 1945–1947
- Lieutenant-General Sir Geoffry Scoones, 1947
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References
- Military Archive Research, Stuart Blank
- The military in British India: the development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947 By T. A. Heathcote, Page265 Manchester University Press, 1995, ISBN 978-0-7190-3570-8
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