HIS Royal Highness The Duke of Gloucester is to visit Pembrokeshire on Thursday, October 4.

His Royal Highness will be carrying out four engagements in the county – three of them in Angle.

The highlight of the visit will be The Duke’s unveiling of a memorial at an unmarked Japanese war grave in Angle churchyard.

During the First World War on October 4, 1918, a 7,700-ton merchant ship, Hirano Maru, was torpedoed by a German U-Boat 200 miles south of Ireland.

Of the 320 people onboard, only 28 were saved.

Several of the bodies were washed ashore at Angle and subsequently buried in the village churchyard.

Funds for the granite obelisk have been raised locally under the auspices of the West Wales Maritime Heritage Society and by a donation from the NYK Shipping Line, owners of the Hirano Maru.

Representatives from the company will be at the ceremony along with staff from the Japanese Embassy in London.

The memorial has been made locally by a father and son team of stonemasons from Milford Haven.

The Duke will also be visiting Angle lifeboat station - which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year – and Chapel Bay Fort and Museum at the western end of the village.

The coast artillery fort, a scheduled ancient monument, was completed in 1891 and is the earliest known fort in the world constructed principally in mass concrete.

His Royal Highness is patron of the Fortress Study Group, which aims to further the understanding of military fortifications.

Earlier in the day, The Duke will officially open Paul Sartori House in Winch Lane, Haverfordwest.

The building is the headquarters of the Paul Sartori Foundation which provides Pembrokeshire’s only Hospice at Home service.