Unexecuted design for a Merchant Navy Memorial to commemorate the missing of the Second World War, Trinity Square Gardens, Tower Hill, London: aerial perspective

NOTES: Maufe was the Commonweath War Graves CommissionÔÇÖs Principal Architect for the United Kingdom after World War II and, amongst other memorial schemes, produced the designs for the extension to the Merchant Navy Memorial at Tower Hill, dedicated to the men of the Merchant Navy and Fishing Fleets who gave their lives and have no grave but the sea in 1914-1918, designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens and unveiled in 1928 (seen at the top of Trinity Square Gardens in this image). The design by Maufe which was built in the end is a semi-circular sunken garden located behind the Lutyens memorial and surrounded by walls. The interior face of the walls are cased in bronze bearing in relief the names of the men commemorated. The Maufe 1939-1945 extension was unveiled in 1955.