A. M. S. Elsmie

Major-General Alexander Montagu Spears Elsmie CB CMG (2 November 1869 – 12 November 1958) was a British Indian Army officer.

Elsmie was the second son of George Robert Elsmie, administrator in India and author, and his wife Elizabeth (née Spears). He was educated at Clifton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned second lieutenant in the Border Regiment in January 1889.

In May 1890 he transferred to the Indian Army and joined the 2nd Punjab Infantry (later the 56th Punjabi Rifles). He was promoted lieutenant in July 1891. He served in the Miranzai expeditions in 1891, the Waziristan campaign in 1894–1895, and on the North-West Frontier in 1897–1898, for which he was twice mentioned in despatches while serving as regimental adjutant, a position he had held since October 1896. He later served with the Tirah Field Force. He was promoted captain in January 1900 and attended the Staff College, Camberley in England in 1902.

In January 1907, he was promoted major and appointed brigade major at Jullundur and the following year he became a Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General (DAQMG) at the Indian Army's headquarters at Simla, serving in the Intelligence Branch of the Military Operations Directorate.