Lord Louis Mountbatten(25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979)

 

Lord Mountbatten – was a British Statesman and Naval Officer, an uncle of Prince Philip,Duke of Edinburg and second cousin once removed to Elizabeth II

 During the Second World War II, he was Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command  (1943–46).

He was the last  Viceroy of India(1947) and the first Governor General of the independent Dominion of India  (1947–48), from which the modern Republic of India was to emerge in 1950.

From 1954 until 1959 he was 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 1965, making him the longest serving professional head of the British Armed Forces to date

On Aug 27, 1979, Mountbatten, his grandson Nicholas, and two others were killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), who had placed a bomb in his fishing boat, the Shadow V, at Mullagghmore,County Sligo, in Ireland.

On 5 September 1979 Lord Mountbatten received a ceremonial funeral at Westminister Abbey, which was attended by the Queen, the Royal Family and members of the European Royal Houses