Today, at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the nation stood in silence to mark the moment whistles sounded across the Western Front bringing the First World War to an end.
The conflict tore the heart out of communities across Courier Country not least Dundee, which gave an astonishing 63% of its eligible men to the armed forces, leaving barely a street, house or tenement in the city unaffected.
And on this Armistice Day, the city’s extraordinary contribution to the war is being marked in a new way, with the unveiling of a digital Roll of Honour, Scotland’s first online memoral on a such a scale.
Great War Dundee, a partnership formed to commemorate the First World War and its impact on the city, hopes to tell the story of the men who went to fight and of the loved ones left behind at home.
They were to pay a high price for their efforts.
By the 1918 Armistice more than 4,000 of the city’s young men had lost their lives.
Each of their names is recorded in the Roll of Honour but it is more than a simple alphabetical list of names, ranks and regiments.
The aim is to include information on those who survived and returned to the city, as well as people who experienced the impact of war on the home front.
Among the names is Robert Raeburn from Baffin Street, who enlisted as a gunner in 1915.
Sadly he was killed in action aged 37 just six months before the end of the war and was buried in Belgium.
Poignantly, the Roll of Honour shows Robert’s younger brother George also fought in the war but survived to return home.
Dr Billy Kenefick, historian and chairman of the Great War Dundee Project and senior lecturer at Dundee University, said: “We hope to create a lasting and fitting tribute to those of the city who contributed to Dundee’s efforts during the Great War.
“Where possible, each entry will include a photograph and information collected from various sources.
“We now have biographical details of around 150 men, enabling us to build up a social history from what was previously a list of names.
“The idea is to give these men some substance to their lives.”
The new roll of honour can be accessed at www.greatwardundee.com.