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Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS[1] (born Prince Louis of Battenberg; 2. June 1. 90. 0 – 2. August 1. 97. 9) was a British naval officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and second cousin once removed of Elizabeth II. During the Second World War, he was Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command (1.

He was the last Viceroy of India (1. Governor- General of independent India (1. From 1. 95. 4 until 1. First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some forty years earlier.

Thereafter he served as Chief of the Defence Staff until 1. British Armed Forces to date.

During this period Mountbatten also served as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee for a year. In 1. 97. 9, Mountbatten, his grandson Nicholas, and two others were killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), which had placed a bomb in his fishing boat, Shadow V, in Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland. Early life[edit]. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine, Prince Louis of Battenberg and their four children Princess Alice, Princess Louise, Prince George and Prince Louis. From the time of his birth at Frogmore House in the Home Park, Windsor, Berkshire until 1. King George V dropped their Germanstyles and titles, Mountbatten was known as His Serene Highness Prince Louis of Battenberg. He was the youngest child and the second son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine.

His maternal grandparents were Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe- Coburg and Gotha. His paternal grandparents were Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julia, Princess of Battenberg.[2]His paternal grandparents' marriage was morganatic because his grandmother was not of royal lineage; as a result, he and his father were styled "Serene Highness" rather than "Grand Ducal Highness", were not eligible to be titled Princes of Hesse and were given the less exalted Battenberg title. His siblings were Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Queen Louise of Sweden, and George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven.[2]Young Mountbatten's nickname among family and friends was "Dickie", although "Richard" was not among his given names. This was because his great- grandmother, Queen Victoria, had suggested the nickname of "Nicky", but to avoid confusion with the many Nickys of the Russian Imperial Family ("Nicky" was particularly used to refer to Nicholas II, the last Tsar), "Nicky" was changed to "Dickie".[3]Mountbatten was educated at home for the first 1. Lockers Park School in Hertfordshire[4] and on to the Royal Naval College, Osborne in May 1.

In childhood he visited the Imperial Court of Russia at St Petersburg and became intimate with the doomed Russian Imperial Family, harbouring romantic feelings towards his maternal first cousin Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, whose photograph he kept at his bedside for the rest of his life.[6]Early career[edit]Mountbatten was posted as midshipman to the battlecruiser. HMS Lion in July 1. August 1. 91. 6, transferred to the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth during the closing phases of the First World War.[5] In June 1. German names and titles and adopted the more British- sounding "Windsor", Prince Louis of Battenberg became Louis Mountbatten, and was created Marquess of Milford Haven. His second son acquired the courtesy title. Lord Louis Mountbatten and was known as Lord Louis until he was created a peer in 1.

He paid a visit of ten days to the Western Front, in July 1. He was appointed executive officer (second- in- command) of the small warship HMS P. October 1. 91. 8 and was promoted sub- lieutenant on 1. January 1. 91. 9. HMS P. 3. 1 took part in the Peace River Pageant on 4 April 1. Mountbatten attended Christ's College, Cambridge for two terms, starting in October 1.

English literature (including John Milton and Lord Byron) in a programme that was specially designed for ex- servicemen.[9][1. He was elected for a term to the Standing Committee of the Cambridge Union Society, and was suspected of sympathy for the Labour Party, then emerging as a potential party of government for the first time.[1. He was posted to the battlecruiser HMS Renown in March 1. Edward, Prince of Wales, on a royal tour of Australia in her.[7] He was promoted lieutenant on 1. April 1. 92. 0.[1.

HMS Renown returned to Portsmouth on 1. October 1. 92. 0.[1. Early in 1. 92. 1 Royal Navy personnel were used for civil defence duties as serious industrial unrest seemed imminent.

Mountbatten had to command a platoon of stokers, many of whom had never handled a rifle before, in northern England.[1. He transferred to the battlecruiser HMS Repulse in March 1. Prince of Wales on a Royal tour of India and Japan.[7][1. Edward and Mountbatten formed a close friendship during the trip.[7] Mountbatten survived the deep defence cuts known as the Geddes Axe. Fifty- two percent of the officers of his year had had to leave the Royal Navy by the end of 1. He was posted to the battleship HMS Revenge in the Mediterranean Fleet in January 1. Mountbatten in the late 1.

Pursuing his interests in technological development and gadgetry, Mountbatten joined the Portsmouth Signals School in August 1. Royal Naval College, Greenwich.[7] Mountbatten became a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), now the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), which annually awards the Mountbatten Medal for an outstanding contribution, or contributions over a period, to the promotion of electronics or information technology and their application.[1. He was posted to the battleship HMS Centurion in the Reserve Fleet in 1. Assistant Fleet Wireless and Signals Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes in January 1.

Promoted lieutenant- commander on 1. April 1. 92. 8,[1. Signals School in July 1. Senior Wireless Instructor.[7] He was appointed Fleet Wireless Officer to the Mediterranean Fleet in August 1. December 1. 93. 2,[1. HMS Resolution.[7]In 1.