'The Church Murree the only flat spot in Murree', Punjab, India, 1905 (c)

Photograph, India, 1905 (c).

The Holy Trinity Church, on the Mall Road, in Murree, which was completed in 1857 and is still in use in 2021.

The hill station of Murree was constructed in the Rawalpindi District of the Punjab in the 1850s. It was the location for a British Army sanatorium and was the summer headquarters of the colonial Punjab government prior to its move to Simla. Murree became a popular destination for Europeans.

From an album of 88 photographs compiled by Captain (later Lieutenant Colonel) William Arthur Henry Bird OBE, 23rd Sikh Pioneers, 1905-1920 (c).

Bird was born 6 November 1884 and was commissioned as a 2nd lieutenant in 1904. He served with the 23rd Sikh Pioneers, rising to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. He served in Aden and Somaliland in 1914-1915. He retired from the Army in 1933, and died in 1950, in Cuckfield, West Sussex.