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1009555 - Portrait by John Hedgecoe - Lord Louis Mountbatten, Eart Mountbatten of Burma, First Sea Lord and statesman, 1964 - Admiral of the Fleet Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas 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. He was assassinated by the Provisional IRA, who planted a bomb in his boat in Donegal Bay, County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland.
©2006 John Hedgecoe/TopFoto
©2006 John Hedgecoe/Topfoto
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