Military Secretary to the India Office

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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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[1] Military Archive Research, Stuart Blank

[2] 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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