Southampton Cenotaph Southampton Cenotaph The Southampton Cenotaph is a stone memorial at Watts Park in Southampton, England, originally dedicated to the casualties of the First World War. The memorial was designed by Edwin Lutyens and features a cenotaph on a plinth atop a gently curved pillar. The monument was intended to be abstract and graceful, encouraging a perception of the soldier having fallen in a peaceful, "beautiful death". Decisions over which names should be engraved on the Southampton Cenotaph proved controversial in the 20th century, but the design was heavily influential in determining the form of Lutyens' more famous Cenotaph in Whitehall.
Southampton Cenotaph who had died in later conflicts. The Memorial Wall included a total of 2,368 names from the First World War, 927 from the Second World War and four from subsequent conflicts. This addition to the Cenotaph was opened on 11 December 2011. A small memorial, consisting of a cast metal plaque mounted on a concrete plinth, situated in one corner of the square, commemorates four men from Southampton killed fighting in the International Brigades in the Civil War in Spain, 1936 – 1939. Southampton Cenotaph The Southampton Cenotaph is a stone memorial at Watts Park in Southampton, England, originally dedicated