Military Secretary 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