Admiral of the Fleet. 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Grandson of Queen Victoria and uncle of Prince Philip. Born Frogmore House, Windsor. Important commander in WW2. Supervised the transfer of power from India to Pakistan. Assassinated on a fishing trip on Bank Holiday Monday by the IRA who planted a bomb in his family holiday boat in County Sligo. Three others also died.
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Lord Louis Mountbatten
Plaque unveiled by the Prince of Wales accompanied by the Mountbattens' daugh...
This memorial was planted just over two years after the violent death of Moun...
9 foot 5 inches, bronze on a plinth at the centre of a low stepped platform. ...
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Lord Louis Mountbatten
This plaque was unveiled by Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer KG and Admiral o...
The Pepys Estate was opened on 13th July 1966 by Admiral of the Fleet, The Ea...
Naval officer. Born Hampshire. Governor of Greenwich Hospital, 1821 until h...
Born Dublin. Known as ABC in the Navy. Naval Commander-in-Chief in the Med ...
Infantry regiment. It was founded to oppose King James II and the forthcoming...
