Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
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Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (1900–79). Naval commander and statesman. Mountbatten was born to a family closely related to the house of Windsor. After a spectacular career in the navy and in London high society, in April 1942 he was made commander of combined operations against occupied Europe. In August 1943 he became supreme allied commander for south-east Asia and led the campaign to recover Burma and Malaya from the Japanese. After the war, he showed himself particularly sympathetic to the causes of indigenous nationalism. In December 1946 he was appointed the last viceroy of India to oversee the transfer of power, which took place on 15 August 1947. In 1949 he resumed his naval career and was at the Admiralty, as 1st sea lord, at the time of
Suez, over which he clashed sharply with the
Eden government. He was chief of the defence staff from 1959 to 1965. He was murdered in Ireland by the IRA.
David Anthony Washbrook
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Mountbatten, Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History
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