Mountbatten of Burma, Louis Mountbatten, Earl, 1900-1979

1916 midshipman; 1918 1st lieutenant; 1932 commander; 1942 chief of combined operations; 1942 acting vice-admiral; 1943 acting admiral and supreme commander designate, south east Asia; 1946 rear-admiral; 1947 Viceroy of India; 1947-1948 Govenor-general of India; 1949 vice-admiral; 1950 4th sea lord of the Admiralty; 1954 1st sea lord of the Admiralty; 1956 admiral of the fleet; 1959-1965 chief of defense staff; 1965 Governor of the Isle of Wight.

Honours: 1920 MVO; 1922 KCVO; 1937 GCVO; 1941 DSO; 1943 CB; 1945 KCB; 1946 KG; 1947 privy councillor; 1947 GCSI; 1947 GCIE; 1955 GCB; 1965 OM; 1966 FRS; 1946 honorary DCL, Oxford; honorary LLDs 1946 Cambridge, 1950 Leeds, 1954 Edinburgh, 1955 Southampton, 1960 London, 1963 and Sussex; 1948 honorary DSc of Delhi and Patna.

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