Editing Lord Mountbatten (section)

== First World War ==
At the age of 16, Mountbatten was posted as [[midshipman]] to the [[battlecruiser]] {{HMS|Lion|1910|6}} in July 1916 and, after seeing action in August 1916, transferred to the battleship {{HMS|Queen Elizabeth|1913|6}} during the closing phases of the [[First World War]].<ref name=heath183/> In June 1917, when the royal family stopped using their German names and titles and adopted the more British-sounding "Windsor", Mountbatten acquired the [[Courtesy titles in the United Kingdom|courtesy title]] appropriate to a younger son of a marquess, becoming known as ''Lord Louis Mountbatten'' (''Lord Louis'' for short) until he was created a peer in his own right in 1946.<ref name=heath184>{{harvp|Heathcote|2002|p=184}}.</ref> He paid a visit of ten days to the Western Front in July 1918.<ref>{{Harvp|Ziegler|1985|p=46}}</ref>

[[File:Lord Louis Mountbatten1925.jpg|thumb|left|upright|Portrait by [[Philip de László]], 1925]]
While still an acting-[[sub-lieutenant]], Mountbatten was appointed [[First lieutenant#Royal Navy|first lieutenant]] (second-in-command) of the [[P-class sloop]] HMS&nbsp;''P.&nbsp;31'' on 13 October 1918 and was confirmed as a [[Substantive rank|substantive]] [[sub-lieutenant]] on 15 January 1919. HMS&nbsp;''P.&nbsp;31'' took part in the Peace River Pageant on 4 April 1919. Mountbatten attended [[Christ's College, Cambridge]], for two terms, starting in October 1919, where he studied English literature (including [[John Milton]] and [[Lord Byron]]) in a programme designed to augment the education of junior officers which had been curtailed by the war.<ref>{{Harvp|Ziegler|1985|pp=47–49}}</ref><ref>{{Harvp|Smith|2010|p=66}}</ref> He was elected for a term to the Standing Committee of the [[Cambridge Union Society]] and was suspected of sympathy for the Labour Party, then emerging as a potential party of government for the first time.<ref>{{Harvp|Ziegler|1985|p=49}}</ref>