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There were cantonments nearby at Gharial (Gharrial, Gharyal) (four miles away) and Kuldannah<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=qKzMQTgtNaIC&pg=PA59 ''From Kashmir to Kabul''], page 59 by Omar Khan, refer External links</ref>, (Kuldana)
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-india-old-postcard-kuldana-tents-murree-hills-for-sale-97391 Postcard: View Kuldana, Murree Hills] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20131201062848/http://www.stamps-auction.com/pakistan-india-old-postcard-kuldana-tents-murree-hills-for-sale-97391 archive.org] link)
*[http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/pakistan/upper-topa-murree.html Postcard: Upper Topa Murree 1910] imagesofasia.com ([https://web.archive.org/web/20130923021911/http://www.imagesofasia.com/html/pakistan/upper-topa-murree.html archive.org] link)
*[[Khanspur]]
*[http://www.stamps-auction.com/show-lot-print.php?lot_id=61895 Postcard: The Church Gharyal Murree Hill] www.stamps-auction.com. Possibly this was the cantonment church.
*Fifty Members of the Murree Club 1865 pages 46,47 from ''From Kashmir to Kabul: the photographs of John Burke and William Baker, 1860-1900'' by Omar Khan 2002 [http://books.google.com/books?id=qKzMQTgtNaIC&pg=PA46 Limited View Google Books]. Also refer [[Photographer#Books|Photographer]] for more details of this book.
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/daudpota/512416852/ Photograph: The Murree Amateur Dramatic Group, 1896] flickr.com
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'''Murree''' (alternative spelling Murri) is a hill station in Punjab founded by the British in 1851.
'''The surrounding area of Murree Hills'''
<br>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barian Barian] (Wikipedia) is situated in the Murree Hills, about 13 km north west of Murree, in the area known as '''[[Hazara Galis|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.<ref>[http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/cffe1/13f58f/"Murree and the Galis"] by Hassan Humayun ([http://web.archive.org/web/20130615155915/http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/cffe1/13f58f/ archive.org] link)</ref> Galiyat is the plural of Gali which literally means an alley but in this case it probably alludes to a valley between mountains.<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/groups/galiyat/pool About Galiyat, The Pakistani Alps] flickr.com</ref> Barian Gali or Burean Gully<ref>
[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=R_5tAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Barian+Gali%22&dq=%22Barian+Gali%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=SzvfT_PME42hiQenk_mYCg&sqi=2&redir_esc=y Google Books snippet view: page 129, ''Historical images of Pakistan''] by F. S. Aijazuddin</ref> is probably the same place as Barian (Bharian). In 1901 this area became part of [[Hazara District]] , [[North West Frontier Province]]
<br>Tret is situated 40 kilometers from Rawalpindi on the main road to Muree. <br>
"The British began to establish summer camps for the troops in the Galliat area and by the 1880 Baragali, Kalabagh, and Khairagali were occupied by various artillery units. Gora Dhaka, [[Khanspur]] and Changlagali housed infantry units. Nathiagali and Dungagali were reserved for civil servants. Thandiani served as a hill station for the civil servants in Abbottabad. These summer camps (cantonments) had a mixture of permanent and semi-permanent buildings and were supplied by small bazaars to cater for the needs of the troops"<ref> [http://www.abbottabadonline.com/ abbottabadonline.com] ([http://web.archive.org/web/20130813052435/http://www.abbottabadonline.com/ archive.org] link)</ref>
In 1907:<br>"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]]".<ref name=name>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105626/page/n249/mode/2up Page 228], computer page 251 ''Punjab District Gazetteers, Volume XXVIIIA, Rawalpindi District 1907'', published 1909. Archive.org, available to read online on the [[Online books#mirror from Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website.</ref>
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".<ref>Google Books snipper search result: ''Unlikely beginnings: a soldier's life by Aboobaker Osman Mitha - 2003</ref> In 1920 there was a RAF Hill Depot established at Lower Barian.<ref>Snippet Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=55cBAAAAMAAJ&q=Barian,+Murree&dq=Barian,+Murree&hl=en&sa=X&ei=byvfT-CkFoWZiQfnlpiaCg&redir_esc=y ''Military history of British India, 1607-1947''] by Harbans Singh Bhatia, page 29 and Snippet Google Books [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=xgAFAAAAMAAJ&q=Barian,+Murree&dq=Barian,+Murree&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4yvfT-f_I6-wiQfIxbmaCg&redir_esc=y ''The flying elephants: a history of No. 27 Squadron, Royal Flying Corps, Royal Air Force, 1915-69''], page 96</ref>
[[Bara Gali]] about 40km from Murree, also was a small cantonment, occupied in the hot summer months by one of the British mountain batteries which were stationed at [[Rawalpindi]] in the winter.<ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V06_431.gif "Bara Gali"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 6'', page 425.</ref>(Spelling variants: Bara Gali/Baragully) Changla Gali was situated on the road from Murree to Abbottabad, 9 miles from the former and 31 miles from the latter place. It was the head-quarters of the Northern Command School of Musketry, also referred to as the First Circle School of Musketry.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280096/page/n298/mode/1up Page 229]''Gazetteer Of The Hazara District 1907'', published 1908. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.</ref><ref>[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?volume=10&objectid=DS405.1.I34_V10_179.gif "Changla Gali"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 10, page 173.</ref> (spelling variant Changlagali/Changligali ). [[Ghora Dakha]] was a small cantonment on the road between Dunga Gali and Murree, 3 miles from the former and 15 from the latter place. During the summer months it was occupied by a detachment of British infantry.<ref>[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V12_242.gif "Ghora Dakka"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 12'', page 236.</ref> (Spelling variants Ghora/Gora Dakka/Dhaka)
[[Kalabagh (Murree Hills)|Kalabagh]] was a small cantonment on the road between [[Abbottabad]] and Murree. During the summer months it was occupied by one of the British mountain batteries which were stationed at Rawalpindi in the winter.(Spelling variants: Kalabagh/ Kala Bagh) [[Khaira Gali ]] was a small cantonment on the road between Abbottabad and Murree, also occupied in the summer months by one of the British mountain batteries which were stationed at [[Rawalpindi]] in the winter.<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> (Spelling variants : Khaira/ Khairagali/ Khair/ Khyra Gali/ Galli/ Khyragilly/ Khyragully)
There was a Rest Camp at Tret.
[[Khanspur]] was a hill station where a detachment of British Infantry were stationed during the summer months. (Spelling variants Khanspur/ Khan's Pur)
Thobba, Murree Hills was a hot season destination for regiments<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/riflebrigadechr02owngoog#page/n283/mode/1up Page 219] ''The Rifle Brigade Chronicle for 1897'' Archive.org</ref> and c 1899 there was a Convalescent Camp at Camp Thobba<ref>''Navy and Army Illustrated'' June 17 1899, page 297.</ref>
===Military Hospitals===
In 1899 the were military hospitals at
*[[Bara Gali]]: 10 Beds
*Camp [[Gharial]]: 40 Beds
*Camp Thobba:14 Beds
*Camp Upper Topa: 16 Beds
*Camp Lower Topa: 25 Beds
*[[Ghora Dakha]]: 30 Tents
*Kalabagh: 15 Beds
*Khyragully: 10 Beds
*Kuldunnah: 60 Beds
*[[Murree]] C.D: 43 Beds<ref>[http://www.scarletfinders.co.uk/175.html Military Hospitals 1899] scarletfinders.co.uk. Retrieved 19 October 2014</ref>
===Postcards and photographs of the cantonments===
[[Image:Murree. View of cantonment General Hospital.jpg|right|thumb|300px|A View of Cantonment General Hospital, Murree]]
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/13305961@N00/3964243740/ Postcard: Ghorrial Murree, c 1910] "History of Pakistan" on flickr.com
*From a collection of postcards at the ETH-Bibliothek Zürich, sent by F.G. Prew, a soldier, probably in the [[56th Regiment of Foot| 2nd Battalion, Essex Regiment]] to Adolf Feller of Switzerland
**[http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043236-RE_171806.html The General View Murree Hill looking from Murree Depot] sent 1931 with [http://www.e-pics.ethz.ch/index/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv/ETHBIB.Bildarchiv_Fel_043236-VE_216222.html message]
==Also see==
*[[:Category:Murree images|Images of Murree]]
==Cemeteries==
*Old Cemetery
*Cliffden Road new Cemetery
*Pindi Point New Cemetery
Images and Transcriptions from above three cemeteries can be found on Dr Ali Jan’s website [http://www.geocities.ws/scn_pk/murree_cemetery.html The old English Cemeteries in Murree, Pakistan] - which is linked to [http://www.indian-cemeteries.org Indian Cemeteries] and include [http://www.indian-cemeteries.org/viewimageexternal links below.asp?mode=mon&ID=282 Monument to those who died 1st Bn 6th Royal Regiment at Murree and Camp Kotlee during the Cholera Epidemic of 1872] Cliffden Road Cemetery, Murree
See also:-
*[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqzo_3MsB98 British Soldiers' Cemetery, Lower Topa, Murree Hills – Pakistan] Video on YouTube
*Video on YouTube: Visit to a 200 Years Old British Christian Cemetery in Murree by MurreeHills1849 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywLNk_6eUJM Part 1], [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIzrDxNZYHM Part 2]
Also see "Historical books online", below.
==Educational Institutes==
==External Links==
*Cemeteries :-
**Transcriptions and Images from website Indian cemeteries - now archived on archive.org.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20160910043806/http://indian-cemeteries.org/cemetery_details.asp?town=Murree&cem=Old%20Cemetery Old Cemetery]
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20160910044244/http://indian-cemeteries.org/cemetery_details.asp?town=Murree&cem=Cliffden%20Road%20Cemetery Cliffden Road new Cemetery]
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20160910043352/http://indian-cemeteries.org/cemetery_details.asp?town=Murree&cem=Pindi%20Point%20Cemetery Indi Point Cemetery]
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murree Murree] Wikipedia
*A letter written by Harry Beaumont, 1/6 [[East Surrey Regiment]], No. 2297, from a collection of letters written by staff at the Audit office for the Great Western Railway (GWR) based at Paddington, London. The National Archives. :[http://www.nationsillustratednationalarchives.gov.comuk/education/photosresources/topnletters-first-world-war-1915/pictureindia-time-life/8474 Kuldana Cantonment, Murree Hills India: ‘the time of my life’] May 1915, Pakistan] by Dr Ali Jan wwwwritten from Kuldana.nationsillustrated.com
*"Memories of Murree" by Walter Reeve (born 1934) whose father was in the Indian Army and later Pakistan Army. Details of a visit to Murree in 1936 from the author’s father’s memoirs, and the author’s memory of visits in 1948 and 1949. [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306125548/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-06-11-2005/foo.htm Part 1], [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306125717/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-13-11-2005/foo.htm Part 2], [http://web.archive.org/web/20070306062112/http://www.jang.com.pk/thenews/nov2005-weekly/nos-20-11-2005/foo.htm Part 3] Scroll down. jang.com.pk 6, 13 and 20 November 2005, now archived websites. See [[Peshawar]] for the author’s memories of an English schoolboy growing up in Peshawar around the time of partition.
*[http://tinyurl.com/dck7jz Churches and Chapels in Murree] ''Youtube''.
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/anjum_sohrab_satti/6144211443/in/set-72157626912385443 Photograph: St. Deny's Church – Murree] flickr.com
*[http://www.geocities.ws/jamshedt/Muree.htm Muree and Gallies] www.geocities.ws/jamshedt
*[http://jang.com.pk/thenews/jul2009-weekly/nos-19-07-2009/foo.htm#1 "A rock epic"]. An article by Ali Jan about a 1909 regimental rock carving by the [[5th Regiment of Foot|Northumberland Fusiliers]], at Murree from The News on Sunday 19 July 2009 (jang.com.pk)
*[http://www.geocities.ws/scn_pk/westyorkshire.html Prince of Wales's Own West Yorkshire Regiment, Kuldana, Murree 1907- 1910] by Dr Ali Jan. Details of rock carvings.
*[http://www.flickr.com/photos/ishtiaqahmed/6785836628 Photograph of Murree Mountain (7,600 feet) taken from Lower Topa] by IshtiaQ Ahmed flickr.com
*[http://www.flickr.com/search/?w=13305961@N00&q=Murree&m=text Images of Murree] from "History of Pakistan"'s collection flickr.com
*[http://www.murreebrewery.com/hishistory.html htm The Murree Brewery: History] murreebrewery.com*[http://blogwww.findmypasttelegraph.co.uk/wp-contentnews/uploadsworldnews/2012asia/09pakistan/sarah1.jpg Photograph of tonga journey returning from school in Murree, October 1905] from [http:9153934//blog.findmypast.co.uk/2012/09/askAle-under-the-veil-the-photoonly-expertbrewery-indianin-mystery Ask Pakistan.html "Ale under the veil: the photo expert Blog 25 Sep only brewery in Pakistan"] by Jonathan Foreman 24 Mar 2012''The Telegraph''. The Murree Brewery. By 1910 the company was finding it increasingly difficult to source clean water in Murree itself and transferred all its brewing to [[Rawalpindi]] findmypast.co.uk
===Historical books online===
*[http://dsal.uchicago.edu/reference/gazetteer/pager.html?objectid=DS405.1.I34_V18_048.gif "Murree Town"] ''Imperial Gazetteer of India, Volume 18'', page 42.
*[http://archive.org/stream/handbooktravelle00john#page/n415/mode/2up 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.
*[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=oKAEAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA321 "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''. Google Books.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.281435 ''Gazetteer Of The Rawalpindi District 1893-94'']. A volume in the series ''Punjab District Gazetteers''. Archive.org, Volume XXVIIIAPublic Library of India Collection.:[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.105626 ''Punjab District Gazetteers, Vol.xxviiiA. Rawalpindi District 1907'']. Archive.org, published 1909, is available to read online on the [[Online books#Digital Publicl Library of India| Digital Collection.*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.280096 ''Gazetteer Of The Hazara District 1907'']. A volume in the series ''N W F Province Gazetteers''. Archive.org, Public Library of India]] websiteCollection.*[https://hdl.handle. Table of Contents commences computer page 8net/2027/uc1. ==Further Readingc2740836?urlappend=%3Bseq=* Shaukat, Lala Rukh, 155 "Mystique of Murree" Lahore: Ferozsons ] page 125 ''A list of inscriptions on Christian tombs or monuments in the Punjab, North-West Frontier Province, Kashmir and Afghanistan possessing historical or archaeological interest Part 1'' by Miles Irving (Pvt1910) Ltd 2006 ISBN 969 0 01986 4HathiTrust Digital Library. ArticleAlso available [https://archive.org/details/dli.granth.93072/page/124/mode/2up Archive.org version].*[httphttps://archivesarchive.org/details/jramc-1927-vol48/page/393/mode/2up "Notes on Khairagali and Changligali, North-West Frontier Province"] by Major J E M Boyd, RAMC, page 393 ''Journal of the Royal Army Medical Corps, Volume 48 1927'' Archive.dawnorg*[https://archive.comorg/details/weeklydli.pahar.2799 '' A Handbook to the North-West Frontier including Jhelum Rawalpindi and Hazara Districts''] by Cyril James Davey 1942. Archive.org, mirror from Pahar-Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset. Includes “Murree” from [https:/books/archive.org/details/dli.pahar.2799/page/27/060820mode/books52up page 28] and “Other Stations in the Murree Hills” from page 29*[http://pahar.in/pahar/2002-from-kashmir-to-kabul-the-photographs-of-john-burke-and-william-baker-1860-1900-by-khan-pdf/ ''From Kashmir to Kabul: The photographs of John Burke and William Baker 1860-1900''] by Omar Khan 2002.htm Queen Download from Mountains of Central Asia Digital Dataset (MCADD). Includes chapters about [[Peshawar]], '''Murree''', [[Kashmir]], the hills[[2nd Afghan War| Second Afghan War]] by Zahrah Nasir August 20, 2006 Dawn [[Lahore]].com
==References==
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