Editing Lord Mountbatten (section)

{{Short description|British statesman and naval officer (1900–1979)}}
{{Redirect|Louis Mountbatten|his father, the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven|Prince Louis of Battenberg|his hereditary peerage|Earl Mountbatten of Burma}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix    = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name                = The Earl Mountbatten of Burma
| honorific_suffix    = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KG|GCB|OM|GCSI|GCIE|GCVO|DSO|ADC|PC|FRS}}
| image               = Lord Mountbatten Naval in colour Allan Warren.jpg
| caption             = Portrait by [[Allan Warren]], 1976
| office1             = [[Chief of the Defence Staff (United Kingdom)|Chief of the Defence Staff]]
| primeminister1      = {{Unbulleted list|[[Harold Macmillan]]|[[Alec Douglas-Home]]|[[Harold Wilson]]}}
| term_start1         = 13 July 1959
| term_end1           = 15 July 1965
| predecessor1        = [[William Dickson (RAF officer)|William Dickson]]
| successor1          = [[Richard Hull]]
| office2             = [[First Sea Lord]]
| primeminister2      = {{Unbulleted list|[[Anthony Eden]]|Harold Macmillan}}
| term_start2         = 18 April 1955
| term_end2           = 19 October 1959
| predecessor2        = [[Rhoderick McGrigor]]
| successor2          = [[Charles Lambe]]
| office3             = [[Governor-General of India]]
| monarch3            = [[George VI]]
| primeminister3      = [[Jawaharlal Nehru]]
| term_start3         = 15 August 1947
| term_end3           = 21 June 1948
| predecessor3        = ''Himself'' (As Viceroy and Governor-General of India)
| successor3          = [[C. Rajagopalachari]]
| office4             = [[Viceroy and Governor-General of India]]
| primeminister4      = [[Clement Attlee]]
| monarch4            = George VI
| term_start4         = 21 February 1947
| term_end4           = 15 August 1947
| predecessor4        = [[Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell|The Viscount Wavell]]
| successor4          = {{Unbulleted list|''Himself'' (as Governor-General of India)}}
| office5             = Member of the [[House of Lords]]
| status5             = [[Lord Temporal]]
| term_label5         = [[Hereditary peer]]age
| term_start5         = 13 June 1946
| term_end5           = 27 August 1979
| predecessor5        = [[Earl Mountbatten of Burma|''Peerage established'']]
| successor5          = [[Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma|The 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma]]
| birth_name          = Prince Louis of Battenberg
| birth_date          = {{birth date|1900|6|25|df=y}}
| birth_place         = [[Frogmore House]], Windsor, Berkshire, England
| death_date          = {{death date and age|1979|8|27|1900|6|25|df=y}}
| death_place         = [[Mullaghmore, County Sligo]], Ireland
| death_cause         = [[Assassination of Lord Mountbatten|Assassination]]
| resting_place       = [[Romsey Abbey]]
| spouse              = {{marriage|[[Edwina Ashley]]|18 July 1922|21 February 1960|end=d.}}
| children            = {{ublist
 |[[Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma]]
 |[[Lady Pamela Hicks]]
 }}
| parents             = {{ublist
 |[[Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven]]
 |[[Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine]]
 }}
| alma_mater          = [[Christ's College, Cambridge]]
| allegiance          = United Kingdom
| branch              = [[Royal Navy]]
| serviceyears        = 1913–1965
| commands            = {{collapsible list |title=''See list''
 |{{Longitem|[[Chief of the Defence Staff (United Kingdom)|Chief of the Defence Staff]]}}|(1959–1965)
 |{{Longitem|[[First Sea Lord]]}}|(1955–1959)
 |{{Longitem|[[Mediterranean Fleet]]}}|(1952–1954)
 |{{Longitem|[[Fourth Sea Lord]]}}|(1950–1952)
 |{{Longitem|[[Supreme Allied Commander]], &nbsp;[[South East Asia Command]]}}|(1943–1946)
 |{{Longitem|Chief of [[Combined Operations Headquarters|Combined Operations]]}}|(1941–1943)
 |{{Longitem|{{HMS|Illustrious|87|6}}}}|(1941)
 |{{Longitem|{{HMS|Kelly|F01|6}}}}|(1939–1941)
 |{{Longitem|{{HMS|Wishart|D67|6}}}}|(1934–1936)
 |{{Longitem|{{HMS|Daring|H16|6}}}}|(1934)
 }}
| unit                = 
| battles             = {{ublist
 |[[World War I|First World War]]
 |[[World War II|Second World War]]
 }}
| mawards             = [[List of titles and honours of Lord Mountbatten|Full list]]
| laterwork           = 
| signature           = Signature of Lord Louis Mountbatten.svg
}}

[[Admiral of the Fleet (Royal Navy)|Admiral of the Fleet]] '''Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma''' (born '''Prince Louis of Battenberg''';{{refn|Mountbatten's family dropped their princely titles in 1917, after which he was styled '''Lord Louis Mountbatten''' until 1946. He was styled '''The Viscount Mountbatten of Burma''' from 1946 to 1947.|group=n}} 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as '''Lord Mountbatten''', was a British statesman, [[Royal Navy]] officer and close relative of the [[British royal family]]. He was born in the United Kingdom to the prominent [[Battenberg family]]. He was a maternal uncle of [[Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh]], and a second cousin of [[King George VI]]. He joined the [[Royal Navy during the First World War]] and was appointed [[Supreme Allied Commander]], [[South East Asia Command]], in the [[Second World War]]. He later served as the last [[Viceroy of India]] and briefly as the first [[Governor-General]] of the [[Dominion of India]].

Mountbatten attended the [[Royal Naval College, Osborne]], before entering the Royal Navy in 1916. He saw action during the closing phase of the [[First World War]], and after the war briefly attended [[Christ's College, Cambridge]]. During the [[interwar period]], Mountbatten continued to pursue his naval career, specialising in naval communications. Following the outbreak of the Second World War, he commanded the destroyer {{HMS|Kelly|F01|6}} and the [[5th Destroyer Flotilla]]. He saw considerable action in Norway, in the English Channel, and in the Mediterranean. In August 1941, he received command of the aircraft carrier {{HMS|Illustrious|87|6}}. He was appointed chief of [[Combined Operations Headquarters|Combined Operations]] and a member of the [[Chiefs of Staff Committee]] in early 1942, and organised the raids on [[St Nazaire Raid|St Nazaire]] and [[Dieppe Raid|Dieppe]]. In August 1943, Mountbatten became Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command and oversaw the recapture of [[Burma campaign (1944–1945)|Burma]] and [[Operation Tiderace|Singapore]] from the Japanese by the end of 1945. For his service during the war, Mountbatten was created viscount in 1946 and [[Earl Mountbatten of Burma|earl]] the following year.

In February 1947, Mountbatten was appointed Viceroy and Governor-General of India and oversaw the [[Partition of India]] into [[Dominion of India|India]] and [[Dominion of Pakistan|Pakistan]]. He then served as the first Governor-General of the Union of India until June 1948 and played a significant role in persuading [[princely states]] to accede to India.<ref name="Sanajaoba223">{{cite book | last=Sanajaoba | first=Naorem | title=Law and Society: Strategy for Public Choice, 2001 | publisher=Mittal Publications | year=1991 | isbn=978-81-7099-271-4 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9eYC4tjzyi4C&pg=PA223 | quote=The princely states had been wooed by Mountbatten, Patel and Nehru to join the Indian Dominion | page=223 | access-date=15 March 2024 | archive-date=15 March 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315055902/https://books.google.com/books?id=9eYC4tjzyi4C&pg=PA223 | url-status=live }}</ref> In 1952, Mountbatten was appointed commander-in-chief of the British [[Mediterranean Fleet]] and [[NATO]] Commander [[Allied Forces Mediterranean]]. From 1955 to 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 (United Kingdom)|chief of the Defence Staff]] until 1965, making him the longest-serving professional head of the British Armed Forces to date. During this period Mountbatten also served as [[chairman of the NATO Military Committee]] for a year.

In August 1979, [[Assassination of Lord Mountbatten|Mountbatten was assassinated]] by a bomb planted aboard his fishing boat in [[Mullaghmore, County Sligo]], Ireland, by members of the [[Provisional Irish Republican Army]]. He received a [[Funeral of Lord Mountbatten|ceremonial funeral]] at [[Westminster Abbey]] and was buried in [[Romsey Abbey]] in Hampshire.