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Latitude: 56.754 / 56°45'14"N
Longitude: -5.6948 / 5°41'41"W
OS Eastings: 174225
OS Northings: 768580
OS Grid: NM742685
Mapcode National: GBR DBBV.SCL
Mapcode Global: WH0DQ.HHFN
Plus Code: 9C8PQ834+H3
Entry Name: Howard Memorial, Loch Shiel
Listing Name: Loch Shiel, Howard Memorial
Listing Date: 29 May 1985
Category: C
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 330498
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB294
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200330498
Location: Arisaig and Moidart
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Fort William and Ardnamurchan
Parish: Arisaig And Moidart
Traditional County: Inverness-shire
Tagged with: War memorial
Battered and panelled square plinth on stepped base supporting tall cross with raised border and superimposed by sword on south face. All polished ashlar. Bronze relief of bust of young man in Welsh Guards' uniform within laurel wreath and raised broken scroll border, set in south facing panel of plinth. (Sculptor's initials, HGF or HCF). Coat of arms of Howard of Glossop carved in rear, north facing panel; side panels filled with inscriptions. Simple cast-iron spearhead railing surrounds memorial.
The memorial stands on a promontory on the north shore of Loch Shiel. It was erected by 2nd Baron Frances Howard of Glossop in honour of his son who was killed in action in France in May 1918.
The inscriptions read,
LIEUTENANT THE HONBLE.
PHILIP G. J. F. HOWARD
WELSH GUARDS WHO DIED
24TH MAY 1918 OF WOUNDS
RECEIVED IN ACTION WHILE
COMMANDING NO.3 COY. OF
THE 1ST BATTLN. IN FRANCE
BORN APRIL 1895
–-
ERECTED BY
FRANCIS 2ND BARON
HOWARD OF GLOSSOP
IN HONOUR OF HIS SON
LIEUTENANT THE HONBLE.
PHILIP G. J. F. HOWARD
1919
Baron Howard of Glossop owned Dorlin House, Shiel Bridge, since destroyed by fire.
Listed building record revised 2018
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