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
editThe 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