Military Secretary to the India Office

The Military Secretary to the India Office was a senior government official within the India Office and its predecessor the India Board, who was responsible for the recruitment of British and other European nationals to the officer ranks of the British Indian Army.Military Archive Research, Stuart Blank

Military Secretaries to the India Office The Military Secretaries were as follows: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,

India Board

Major James Salmond 1809–1837 Philip Melvill 1837–1858

India Office 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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