The Southampton Cenotaph was unveiled #OnThisDay in 1920.
Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, his Whitehall Cenotaph was unveiled in London five days later, on 11 November 1920.
An iconic symbol of remembrance, the names of 3,298 Southampton men and women are now listed here.
Was loving my stroll along the beach today in the wind and the rain, but then I walked under the pier and everything was turned up to eleven. The sound of the crashing waves, the howling wind. It was breathtaking under there.
The Battle of Trafalgar happened #OnThisDay in 1805.
And #OnThisDay in 1905, Southampton’s Trafalgar Dry Dock was opened.
It was the largest dry dock in the world at the time and it was later enlarged. Last used for ship repairs in the 1980s; since then it has been filled in.
Declassified files now reveal that women were at the heart of SOE, not only as courageous agents, but also agent-handlers and intelligence officers.
Some of the women had major, not incidental roles, within organisations such as SOE, MI5, MI6 and MI9 (amongst others).