The Scottish Military Research Group - Commemorations Project

spoons · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:01 pm Post subject: Memorial Lists - a disaster!

I have been merrily adding to and updating the Dumfries and Galloway list as I post and find new memorials, but today I have found a serious problem. I have lost the last half of the 'Other' list. This is the final section so I immediately suspected that the post was being truncated.

By some careful experimentation I found that I have reached some sort of maximum limit for the post and each time I add a new entry, another one gets 'pushed off the end' and lost. Disaster!! - I don't have this info anywhere else, do the mods have any backup of this section - say 4 weeks old or more? I presume not. Sad

Fortunately, the second post on this thread is mine so my fix is to move 'other' (and probably the section before as well) into the beginning of the first reply to the post and keep an eye on it.

Obviously the memorials that have already posted can be added back and the list reconstructed, but what about any that had not yet been collected? Any after Dumfries Cornets club in the 'other' section, that have not already been posted, are now lost from my list. Anyone have a backup or any suggestions how I can get these back?

I remember there was the Garlieston Mulberry Harbour trials (collected today) and the Loch Skerrow Typhoon crash but there may have been up to half a dozen more at a rough guess.

\Paul

spoons · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 6:03 pm Post subject:

BTW - anyone else who has long lists should keep an eye on them (I recommend checking the last entry after every update).

\Paul

DerekR · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 7:39 pm Post subject:

That's NOT good.

Any idea what sort of maximum size was exceeded?
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Adam Brown · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:00 pm Post subject:

Spoons

I have a copy of the original list on my home pc. I will not be able to get to it untl next week now though.

Adam

spoons · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:05 pm Post subject:

spoons · Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:14 pm Post subject:

Adam Brown · Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 10:42 pm Post subject:

Paul

I hope this is of use. It's the original list of Regimental and Other memorials for D&G from Jan '07

Regiment & Unit
King's Own Scottish Borderers, 3rd Battalion - Boer War.. Location -
Greyfriars Parish Church, Dumfries, (Disused), Not listed on UKNIWM (Spoons)
King's Own Scottish Borderers, 2nd Battalion KOSB - Egypt. Location -
Greyfriars Parish Church, Dumfries, (Disused), Not listed on UKNIWM (Spoons)
Moffat, Polish Officers , Location - Moffat Academy , UKNIWM Ref No. 44212

Other
Annan, Air Crash , Location - 1 mile north of Annan
Cairnsmore of Fleet, Local Air Crashes , Location - 5 miles East of Newton
Stewart
Dalbeattie, Dalbeattie Royal British Legion , Location - Dalbeattie Royal
British Legion , UKNIWM Ref No. 44398
Dumfries, Cornets Club , Location - Dumfries Castle, Castledykes Park ,
UKNIWM Ref No. 5860
Dumfries, Crichton Royal Infirmary Staff , Location - Chapel, Crichton Royal
Infirmary , UKNIWM Ref No. 44254
Dumfries, Dumfries Aviation Group , Location - Dumfries Aerodrome (disused)
, UKNIWM Ref No. 5878
Eaglesfield, Eaglesfield Bowling Club , Location - Eaglesfield Bowling Club
, UKNIWM Ref No. 44121
Garlieston, Mulberry Harbour Trials , Location - Not known , UKNIWM Ref No.
44812
Gretna Green, Quintshill, Quintshill Rail Disaster , Location - Not known ,
UKNIWM Ref No. 44218
Gretna, Bombing Raid , Location - Not known , UKNIWM Ref No. 44152
Loch Skerrow, Typhoon Air Crash , Location - 6 miles north of Gatehouse of
Fleet
Newbie, Cochran and Company Annan, Ltd , Location - Cochran Boilers , UKNIWM
Ref No. 44215
Stranraer, Commonwealth and Allied Forces , Location - Not known , UKNIWM
Ref No. 44422

Cheers

Adam