London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom

Tower Hill Memorial

London Borough of Tower Hamlets, United Kingdom

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Tower Hill Memorial is a pair of Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials in Trinity Square Gardens on Tower Hill in London, commemorating civilian, merchant seafarers, and fishermen killed in enemy action with no known grave. The first memorial, the Mercantile Marine War Memorial, was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled on 12 December 1928 by Queen Mary, marking her first public use of radio broadcast. Constructed in Portland limestone, Lutyens's structure takes the form of a vaulted corridor reminiscent of a Doric temple, its walls clad with bronze panels bearing the names of those lost in the First World War. A second memorial, the Merchant Seamen's Memorial, was designed by Sir Edward Maufe and unveiled in 1955 to commemorate the significantly higher merchant shipping losses of the Second World War; this memorial comprises a sunken garden accessed by steps behind the original structure, its walls similarly clad with bronze panels and interspersed with relief sculptures by Charles Wheeler. A third memorial, dedicated to those killed in the 1982 Falklands War, was added to the site in 2005.