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[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_Gali Bara Gali] (Wikipedia), about 40km from Murree, also was a small cantonment.  
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bara_Gali Bara Gali] (Wikipedia), about 40km from Murree, also was a small cantonment.  
Khaira Gali was a small cantonment on the road between Abbottabad and Murree, occupied in the summer months by one of the British mountain batteries which were stationed at [[Rawalpindi]] in the winter. (Spelling variants : Khaira/Khair/Khyra Gali/Galli<ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V15_213.gif Khaira Gali] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 15'', page 207</ref>


There was a Rest Camp at Tret.
There was a Rest Camp at Tret.


===Postcards and photographs of the cantonments===
===Postcards and photographs of the cantonments===
'''Postcards''' are from ebay, unless otherwise indicated. Usually an enlarged image may be seen, either by clicking on the image to enlarge it, or in some cases a larger image is available by scrolling down the page.  
'''Postcards''' may not be permanent links, particularly those from ebay. If not, try Googling "old postcard" with the title of the postcard. Most are from stamps-auction.com.
*[http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Cantonment-General-Hospital-Murree-Postcard-India-0270-/390427752025?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item5ae74eb659 Postcard: A View of Cantonment General Hospital, Murree]
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-old-postcard-cantonment-g-hospital-murree-hill-for-sale-110233 Postcard: A View of Cantonment General Hospital, Murree]
*[http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pakistan-Old-RP-Postcard-GHARRIAL-BARRACKS-Murree-Hills-/160823955506?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item2571dad032  Postcard: Gharrial Barracks, Murree Hills]
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-india-old-postcard-kuldana-tents-murree-hills-for-sale-97391 Postcard: View Kuldana, Murree Hills]
*[http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/INDIA-GHARRIAL-BARRACKS-WINTER-SNOW-MURREE-HILLS-REAL-PHOTO-POSTCARD-/110823353265?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item19cd962bb1 Postcard: Gharrial Barracks in Winter (Snow) Murree Hills]
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-old-rp-postcard-gharrial-barracks-murree-hills-for-sale-117064 Postcard: Gharrial Barracks, Murree Hills]
*[http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pakistan-India-Old-Postcard-Charat-Hill-Murree-Hills-/160823529775?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item2571d4512f Postcard: Charat Hill, Murree]
*[http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/INDIA-GHARRIAL-BARRACKS-WINTER-SNOW-MURREE-HILLS-REAL-PHOTO-POSTCARD-/110823353265?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item19cd962bb1 Postcard: Gharrial Barracks in Winter (Snow) Murree Hills] ebay
*[http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Pakistan-Old-Postcard-Military-Line-BARIAN-CAMP-Tents-/160823889873 Postcard: General View of Military Line: Barian Camp (c 1910?)]
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-india-old-postcard-charat-hill-at-murree-hills-for-sale-110258 Postcard: Charat Hill, Murree]
*[http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MURREE-HILLS-Pakistan-Bazar-Barian-Camp-Vintage-/160743701816?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item256d123d38 Postcard: Bazar Barian Camp, 7 Miles from Sunny Bank, Murree Hills]
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-old-postcard-military-line-barian-camp-tents-for-sale-119946 Postcard: General View of Military Line: Barian Camp (c 1910?)]
*[http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Pakistan-Old-Postcard-Khans-Pur-Camp-Tents-Murree-Hill-/150836090459?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item231e88165b  Postcard: Khan’s Pur,  Murree Hill]
*[http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MURREE-HILLS-Pakistan-Bazar-Barian-Camp-Vintage-/160743701816?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item256d123d38 Postcard: Bazar Barian Camp, 7 Miles from Sunny Bank, Murree Hills] ebay
*[http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/INDIA-MILITARY-MURREE-HILLS-SOLDIERS-REST-CAMP-TRET-HUTS-TENT-PHOTO-CARD-/390412598661?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item5ae6677d85 Postacard: Rest Camp (Tret) Murree Hills].
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-old-postcard-tents-camping-khan-s-pur-murree-for-sale-55755 Postcard: Khan’s Pur,  Murree Hill]
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-old-postcard-general-view-of-khan-s-pur-murree-for-sale-55778  Postcard: Khan's Pur Murree].  
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-1935-old-postcard-murree-hills-rest-camp-tret-for-sale-76410 Postcard: Rest Camp (Tret) Murree Hills].
*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/pakistan/upper-topa-murree.html Postcard: Upper Topa Murree 1910] imagesofasia.com
*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/pakistan/upper-topa-murree.html Postcard: Upper Topa Murree 1910] imagesofasia.com
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-old-postcard-soldier-home-upper-topa-murree-for-sale-61916 Postcard: The Soldiers' Home Upper Topa, Murree Hill]
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-old-postcard-khair-gali-panorama-murree-hill-for-sale-110234  Postcard: Khair Gali Murree Hill]
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-india-old-postcard-khair-gali-murree-hills-for-sale-105705 Postcard: Khair Gali - (Murree)]
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-india-old-postcard-khaira-gali-murree-hills-for-sale-97397 Postcard: Khaira Galli Murree Hills]


'''Photographs'''
'''Photographs'''

Revision as of 10:13, 17 October 2012

Murree
Presidency: Bengal
Coordinates: 33.906905°N 73.395367°E
Altitude: 2,291.2 m (7,517 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name: Murree
State/Province: Punjab
Country: Pakistan
Transport links

Murree is a hill station in Punjab founded by the British in 1851.

There were cantonments nearby at Gharial (alternative spelling Gharrial) (four miles away) and Kuldannah[1], (Kuldana)

Nearby
Barian (Wikipedia) is situated in the Murree Hills, about 13 km north west of Murree, in the area known as the Galis (Gallis, Galies, Gallies, Gullies, Galiyat) where a number of small hill towns, many of which have Gali in their name, are situated along the crest of the ridge on the road that runs north from Murree to Abbottabad.[2] Galiyat is the plural of Gali which literally means an alley but in this case it probably alludes to a valley between mountains.[3] Barian Gali or Burean Gully[4] is probably the same place as Barian. In 1901 this area became part of Hazara District , North West Frontier Province
Tret is situated 40 kilometers from Rawalpindi on the main road to Muree.


Military history

Insurrection at Murree 1857

Cantonments

In 1907:
"Murree is only a sanitarium. The mountain batteries go from Rawalpindi to the Hazara Galis. Clifden, Sunny Bank and Kuldannah form one cantonment. Clifden is, in summer, filled with a large number of women and children from Rawalpindi and Peshawar. A British Infantry Regiment is located at Kuldannah, and another in a temporary camp at Gharial, which also receives detachments from the summer garrison of Rawalpindi. Barian, on the borders of this district and Hazara, usually has a British Infantry Regiment from Peshawar or Nowshera".[5]

The Army summer camp known as Barian Camp appears to have developed into a more permanent cantonment . "Barian was a lovely one-battalion cantonment at six thousand feet".[6] In 1920 there was a RAF Hill Depot established at Lower Barian.[7]

Bara Gali (Wikipedia), about 40km from Murree, also was a small cantonment.

Khaira Gali was a small cantonment on the road between Abbottabad and Murree, occupied in the summer months by one of the British mountain batteries which were stationed at Rawalpindi in the winter. (Spelling variants : Khaira/Khair/Khyra Gali/Galli[8]

There was a Rest Camp at Tret.

Postcards and photographs of the cantonments

Postcards may not be permanent links, particularly those from ebay. If not, try Googling "old postcard" with the title of the postcard. Most are from stamps-auction.com.


Photographs

Sites of Interest

The following are sites in and around the town.

Educational Institutes

  • Convent of Jesus and Mary (originally boarding, now a day school)
  • St Thomas College, Murree, for boys, was opened in 1882[9], probably by the Capuchin Fathers, and was subsequently taken over by the (Roman Catholic) Mill Hill Missionaries [10]. However, it had probably closed by the 1930’s as there is no mention of this school in the entry for Murree in the Imperial Gazetteer of India, published 1909-1931
  • St Denys School

Volunteer Regiments

G Company, 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifles, had its headquarters at Murree, and was composed of cadets belonging to the Lawrence Military Asylum at Ghora Gali, near Murree.

H Company, 1st Punjab Volunteer Rifles contained civilian residents from Rawalpindi and Murree, and had its headquarter at Murree. In 1907 G and H Companies were "in strength 121 men, exclusive of officers"[5].

External Links

Historical books online

  • "Murree Town" Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 18, page 42.
  • Map of Murree showing the cantonments, between pages 244 and 245, A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon published by John Murray, London Eighth Edition 1911 Archive.org.
  • "Abstract of Medico-Topographical Report of Murree, Punjab" by Assistant-Surgeon J Reade, 2nd Battalion Rifle Brigade, page 321 Army Medical Department: Report for the Year 1862
  • Punjab District Gazetteers, Volume XXVIIIA, Rawalpindi District 1907, published 1909, is available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. Table of Contents commences computer page 8.

Further Reading

  • Shaukat, Lala Rukh, "Mystique of Murree" Lahore: Ferozsons (Pvt) Ltd 2006 ISBN 969 0 01986 4

References

  1. From Kashmir to Kabul, page 59 by Omar Khan, refer External links
  2. "Murree and the Galis" by Hassan Humayun
  3. About Galiyat, The Pakistani Alps flickr.com
  4. Google Books snippet view: page 129, Historical images of Pakistan by F. S. Aijazuddin
  5. 5.0 5.1 Page 228, computer page 251 Punjab District Gazetteers, Volume XXVIIIA, Rawalpindi District 1907, published 1909, available to read online on the Digital Library of India website.
  6. Google Books snipper search result: Unlikely beginnings: a soldier's life by Aboobaker Osman Mitha - 2003
  7. Snippet Google Books Military history of British India, 1607-1947 by Harbans Singh Bhatia, page 29 and Snippet Google Books The flying elephants: a history of No. 27 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, 1915-69, page 96
  8. Khaira Gali Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 15, page 207
  9. The magic mountains: hill stations and the British raj by Dane Keith Kennedy page 138 Google Books
  10. A Google Books search snippet from Into deserts: a history of the Catholic Diocese of Lahore, 1886-1986 by John Rooney c 1986 says: The Rome agreement provided that the Mill Hill Missionaries were to take over responsibility for the debts of St. Thomas College, Murree. Capuchin sources assess these at Rs.l. 00. Mill Hill sources say the debt amounted to Rs.25000.00. ... This book is available at Harvard University Library and UCLA Library
  11. Peshawar Remembered by Walter Reeve (born 1934).