Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
British statesman and naval officer (1900-1979) · United Kingdom · Politicians · Died at 79
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Something wrong?Queen Elizabeth's cousin, Prince Philip's uncle, and the man who drew the line that split India and Pakistan in 1947 - a decision that unleashed one of the twentieth century's bloodiest migrations. The IRA killed him with a boat bomb in 1979.
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Portrait by Philip de László, 1925
Prince Edward with his staff all wearing kimono during the Pacific visit to Japan in 1922. (Mountbatten standing, first from left). The Rising Sun Flag in the background.
Mountbatten inspecting sailors before the Bruneval Raid, February 1942
(Front row, L-R) Walter Short, Mountbatten and Husband E. Kimmel (Back row) Frederick Martin and Patrick Bellinger in Hawaii 1941
Clockwise from lower right, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Sir Hastings 'Pug' Ismay, Mountbatten: January 1943 at the Casablanca Conference
Mountbatten in 1943
Mountbatten during his tour of the Arakan campaign in Burma in February 1944In their own words 1
, As a military man who has given half a century of active service I say in all sincerity that the nuclear arms race has no military purpose.
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Born Prince Louis of Battenberg in 1900, he served in the Royal Navy through both world wars and by 1943 was Supreme Allied Commander in South East Asia. In 1947 he became the last Viceroy of British India, tasked with handing power back; he oversaw partition into India and Pakistan, a process that triggered mass displacement and sectarian violence. After independence he stayed on briefly as India's first Governor-General, then returned to the armed forces, rising to First Sea Lord and Chief of the Defence Staff until 1965 - the longest tenure in that role. He mentored the young Prince Charles and moved through NATO and royal circles, though critics questioned his vanity and the flawed calls he made in India and wartime Asia. On 27 August 1979, the Provisional IRA detonated a bomb on his fishing boat off the Irish coast, killing him and three others.
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