Red Ensign
This is the Merchant Navy Memorial's Second World War section, unveiled by HM The Queen in 1955. It commemorates 23,880 members of the Merchant Navy, Fishing Fleets, Lighthouse and Pilotage Services who have no grave but the sea. Civilians, men and women with ages ranging from 14 to 74, all served under the Red Ensign, the Merchant Navy's official flag which flies over the Memorial. Designed by Sir Edward Maufe, it is Grade II* listed.

In terms of the total commemorated, 
36,102, the Merchant Navy Memorial is the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's largest in the UK. Confusingly however, the CWGC uses its geographical shorthand in calling it the 'Tower Hill Memorial' although the real one is adjacent. 