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
The Indian Army is the land-based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. The President of India is the Supreme Commander of the Indian Army, and its professional head is the Chief of Army Staff (COAS), who is a four- ...
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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,
* 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
References
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Military appointments
Military of British India
1809 establishments in the British Empire
British military appointments