Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas George Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma,
KG,
GCB,
OM,
GCSI,
GCIE,
GCVO,
DSO,
PC (
25 June 1900–
27 August 1979) was a
British admiral and
statesman and an uncle of
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was the last
Viceroy and
first Governor-General of independent
India, and
First Sea Lord, as was his father,
Prince Louis of Battenberg. Mountbatten was
assassinated by the
Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who planted a bomb in his boat at
Mullaghmore, County Sligo in the
Republic of Ireland.
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