Editing Dumfries (section)

===20th century and beyond===
[[File:New bridge 4.jpg|thumb|Buccleuch Street Bridge, Dumfries]]
The first official intimation that [[RAF Dumfries]] was to be built was made in late 1938. The site chosen had accommodated light aircraft since about 1914. Work progressed quickly, and on 17 June 1940, the [[No. 18 Maintenance Unit RAF|18 Maintenance Unit]] was opened at Dumfries. The role of the base during the war also encompassed training. RAF Dumfries had a moment of danger on 25 March 1943, when a German [[Dornier Do 217]] aircraft shot up the airfield beacon, but crashed shortly afterwards. The pilot, [[Oberleutnant]] Martin Piscke was later interred in [[Troqueer]] Cemetery in Dumfries town, with full military honours. On the night of 3/4 August 1943 a [[Vickers Wellington]] bomber with engine problems diverted to but crashed {{convert|1+1/2|mi|km}} short of the Dumfries runway.<ref name="Dumfriesaviationmuseum.com">{{Cite web |title=Dumfries and Galloway Aviation Museum |url=http://www.dumfriesaviationmuseum.com/ |access-date=24 August 2011 |publisher=Dumfriesaviationmuseum.com}}</ref>

During the [[Second World War]], the bulk of the [[Norwegian armed forces in exile]] in Britain consisted of a [[brigade]] in Dumfries.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Giancarlo Rinaldi |date=4 November 2010 |title=Dumfries remembers role as home to Norwegian army |work=[[BBC Scotland]] |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-11685262 |access-date=28 April 2013}}</ref> When the army High Command took over, there were 70 officers and about 760 [[Private (rank)|privates]] in the camp. The camp was established in June 1940 and named ''Norwegian Reception Camp'', consisting of some 500 men and women, mainly foreign-Norwegian who had volunteered for war duty in Norway during the [[German occupation of Norway|Nazi occupation]] in early 1940. Through the summer the number was built up to around 1,500 under the command of [[General]] [[Carl Gustav Fleischer]]. Within a few miles of Dumfries are the villages of [[Tinwald, Scotland|Tinwald]], [[Torthorwald Castle|Torthorwald]] and [[Mouswald]] all of which were settled by [[Vikings]].

Dumfries has experienced two [[Boxing Day]] earthquakes. These were in 1979 (measuring 4.7 {{M|l}} centred near [[Longtown, Cumbria|Longtown]])<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Musson |first1=R. M. W. |last2=Henni |first2=P. H. O. |date=1 December 2002 |title=The felt effects of the Carlisle earthquake of 26 December 1979 |url=http://sjg.lyellcollection.org/content/38/2/113 |journal=Scottish Journal of Geology |volume=38 |issue=2 |pages=113–125 |doi=10.1144/sjg38020113 |bibcode=2002ScJG...38..113M |via=sjg.lyellcollection.org |s2cid=140171007}}</ref> and 2006 (centred in the Dumfries locality measuring 3.6 {{M|l}}).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Dumfries Earthquake 26 December 2006 |url=http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/macroseismics/dumfries_2006_macro.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110309214103/http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/macroseismics/dumfries_2006_macro.htm |archive-date=9 March 2011 |access-date=30 January 2013 |website=British Geological Survey}}</ref> There were no serious consequences of either. There was also an earthquake on 16 February 1984<ref>Redmayne D. W., 1984. "The Dumfries earthquake of 16 February 1984". ''BGS; Global Seismology Report'' No. 241</ref> and a further earthquake on 7 June 2010.<ref>[http://www.earthquakes.bgs.ac.uk/recent_events/20100607173319.3.html]{{dead link|date=August 2011}}</ref>