Lord Mountbatten

British statesman and Royal Navy officer (1900–1979)

"Louis Mountbatten" redirects here. For his father, the 1st Marquess of Milford Haven, see Prince Louis of Battenberg. For his hereditary peerage, see Earl Mountbatten of Burma.

Admiral of the Fleet The Right Honourable

The Earl Mountbatten of Burma

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Portrait by Allan Warren, 1976

Chief of the Defence Staff
In office
13 July 1959 – 15 July 1965
Prime Minister|

* Harold Macmillan
* Alec Douglas-Home
* Harold Wilson

Preceded by| William Dickson
Succeeded by| Richard Hull
First Sea Lord
In office
18 April 1955 – 19 October 1959
Prime Minister|

* Anthony Eden
* Harold Macmillan

Preceded by| Rhoderick McGrigor
Succeeded by| Charles Lambe
Governor-General of India
In office
15 August 1947 – 21 June 1948
Monarch| George VI
Prime Minister| Jawaharlal Nehru
Preceded by| Himself (As Viceroy and Governor-General of India)
Succeeded by| C. Rajagopalachari
Viceroy and Governor-General of India
In office
21 February 1947 – 15 August 1947
Monarch| George VI
Prime Minister| Clement Attlee
Preceded by| The Viscount Wavell
Succeeded by|

* Himself (as Governor-General of India)

Member of the House of Lords

Lord Temporal

Hereditary peerage
13 June 1946 – 27 August 1979
Preceded by| Peerage established
Succeeded by| The 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma
Personal details
Born|

Prince Louis of Battenberg

(1900-06-25)25 June 1900
Frogmore House, Windsor, Berkshire, England
Died| 27 August 1979(1979-08-27) (aged 79)
Mullaghmore, County Sligo, Ireland
Manner of death| Assassination
Resting place| Romsey Abbey
Spouse|

Edwina Ashley

(m. 1922; died 1960)​

Children|

* Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma
* Lady Pamela Hicks

Parents|

* Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven
* Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine

Alma mater| Christ's College, Cambridge
Signature|
Military service
Allegiance| United Kingdom
Branch/service| Royal Navy
Years of service| 1913–1965
Commands|

See list

* Chief of the Defence Staff

* (1959–1965)
* First Sea Lord

* (1955–1959)
* Mediterranean Fleet

* (1952–1954)
* Fourth Sea Lord

* (1950–1952)
* Supreme Allied Commander,  South East Asia Command

* (1943–1946)
* Chief of Combined Operations

* (1941–1943)
* HMS Illustrious

* (1941)
* HMS Kelly

* (1939–1941)
* HMS Wishart

* (1934–1936)
* HMS Daring

* (1934)

Battles/wars|

* First World War
* Second World War

Awards| Full list

Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma (born Prince Louis of Battenberg;[n 1] 25 June 1900 – 27 August 1979), commonly known as Lord Mountbatten, was a British Royal Navy admiral, colonial official and close relative of the British royal family. Mountbatten, who was of German descent, was born in England 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.

He 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 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. He was appointed chief of Combined Operations and a member of the Chiefs of Staff Committee in early 1942, and organised the raids on St Nazaire and Dieppe. In August 1943, Mountbatten became Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command and oversaw the recapture of Burma and Singapore from the Japanese by the end of 1945. For his service during the war, Mountbatten was created viscount in 1946 and earl the following year.

In February 1947, Mountbatten was appointed Viceroy and Governor-General of India and oversaw the Partition of India into India and 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.[1] 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 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, 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 ceremonial funeral at Westminster Abbey and was buried in Romsey Abbey in Hampshire.

## Early life

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Mountbatten, then named Prince Louis of Battenberg, was born on 25 June 1900 at Frogmore House in the Home Park, Windsor, Berkshire.[2] He was the youngest child and the second son of Prince Louis of Battenberg and his wife Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine.[3] Mountbatten's maternal grandparents were Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse, and Princess Alice of the United Kingdom, who was a daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha. His paternal grandparents were Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julia, Princess of Battenberg.[4] Mountbatten's paternal grandparents' marriage was morganatic because his grandmother was not of royal lineage; as a result, he and his father were styled "Serene Highness" rather than "Grand Ducal Highness", were not eligible to be titled Princes of Hesse, and were given the less exalted Battenberg title. Mountbatten's elder siblings were Princess Alice of Battenberg (mother of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh), Princess Louise of Battenberg (later Queen Louise of Sweden), and Prince George of Battenberg (later George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven).[4]

Mountbatten was baptised in the large drawing room of Frogmore House on 17 July 1900 by the Dean of Windsor, Philip Eliot. His godparents were Queen Victoria (his maternal great-grandmother), Nicholas II of Russia (his maternal uncle through marriage and paternal second cousin, represented by the child's father) and Prince Francis Joseph of Battenberg (his paternal uncle, represented by Lord Edward Clinton).[5] He wore the original 1841 royal christening gown at the ceremony.[5]

Mountbatten's nickname among family and friends was "Dickie"; however "Richard" was not among his given names. This was because his great-grandmother, Queen Victoria, had suggested the nickname of "Nicky", but to avoid confusion with the many Nickys of the Russian Imperial Family ("Nicky" was particularly used to refer to Nicholas II, the last Tsar), "Nicky" was changed to "Dickie".[6]

Mountbatten was educated at home for the first 10 years of his life; he was then sent to Lockers Park School in Hertfordshire[7] and on to the Royal Naval College, Osborne, in May 1913.[8]

Mountbatten's mother's younger sister was Russian Empress Alexandra Feodorovna. In childhood he visited the Imperial Court of Russia at St Petersburg and became intimate with the Russian Imperial Family, harbouring romantic feelings towards his maternal first cousin Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna, whose photograph he kept at his bedside for the rest of his life.[9]

Mountbatten adopted his surname as a result of World War I. From 1914 to 1918, Britain and its allies were at war with the Central Powers, led by the German Empire. To appease British nationalist sentiment, in 1917 King George V issued a royal proclamation changing the name of the British royal house from the German House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to the House of Windsor. The king's British relatives with German names and titles followed suit with Mountbatten's father adopting the surname Mountbatten, an anglicisation of Battenberg. The elder Mountbatten was subsequently created Marquess of Milford Haven.[10]

## First World War

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At the age of 16, Mountbatten was posted as midshipman to the battlecruiser HMS Lion in July 1916 and, after seeing action in August 1916, transferred to the battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth during the closing phases of the First World War.[8] 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 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.[11] He paid a visit of ten days to the Western Front in July 1918.[12]

Portrait by Philip de László, 1925

While still an acting-sub-lieutenant, Mountbatten was appointed first lieutenant (second-in-command) of the P-class sloop HMS P. 31 on 13 October 1918 and was confirmed as a substantive sub-lieutenant on 15 January 1919. HMS P. 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.[13][14] 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.[15]

## Interwar period

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Prince Edward with his staff all wearing kimono during the Pacific visit to Japan in 1922. (Mountbatten standing, first from left). The Rising Sun Flag in the background.

Mountbatten was posted to the battlecruiser HMS Renown in March 1920 and accompanied Edward, Prince of Wales, on a royal tour of Australia in her.[11] He was promoted lieutenant on 15 April 1920.[16] HMS Renown returned to Portsmouth on 11 October 1920.[17] Early in 1921 Royal Navy personnel were used for civil defence duties as serious industrial unrest seemed imminent. Mountbatten had to command a platoon of stokers, many of whom had never handled a rifle before, in Northern England.[17] He transferred to the battlecruiser HMS Repulse in March 1921 and accompanied the Prince of Wales on a Royal tour of India and Japan.[11][18] Edward and Mountbatten formed a close friendship during the trip.[11] Mountbatten survived the deep defence cuts known as the Geddes Axe. Fifty-two percent of the officers of his year had had to leave the Royal Navy by the end of 1923; although he was highly regarded by his superiors, it was rumoured that wealthy and well-connected officers were more likely to be retained.[19] Mountbatten was posted to the battleship HMS Revenge in the Mediterranean Fleet in January 1923.[11]

Pursuing his interests in technological development and gadgetry, Mountbatten joined the Portsmouth Signals School in August 1924 and then went on briefly to study electronics at the Royal Naval College, Greenwich.[11] Mountbatten became a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE), now the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).[20] He was posted to the battleship HMS Centurion in the Reserve Fleet in 1926 and became Assistant Fleet Wireless and Signals Officer of the Mediterranean Fleet under the command of Admiral Sir Roger Keyes in January 1927.[11] Promoted lieutenant commander on 15 April 1928,[21] Mountbatten returned to the Signals School in July 1929 as Senior Wireless Instructor.[11] He was appointed Fleet Wireless Officer to the Mediterranean Fleet in August 1931 and, having been promoted commander on 31 December 1932,[22] was posted to the battleship HMS Resolution.[11]

In 1934, Mountbatten was appointed to his first command – the destroyer HMS Daring.[11] His ship was a new destroyer, which he was to sail to Singapore and exchange for an older ship, HMS Wishart.[11] He successfully brought Wishart back to port in Malta and then attended the funeral of George V in January 1936.[23] Mountbatten was appointed a personal naval aide-de-camp to King Edward VIII on 23 June 1936[24] and, having joined the Naval Air Division of the Admiralty in July 1936,[25] he attended the coronation of George VI and Elizabeth in May 1937.[26] Mountbatten was promoted captain on 30 June 1937[27] and was then given command of the destroyer HMS Kelly in June 1939.[28]

Within the Admiralty, Mountbatten was called "The Master of Disaster" for his penchant of getting into messes.[29][30]

## Second World War

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Mountbatten inspecting sailors before the Bruneval Raid, February 1942

When war broke out in September 1939, Mountbatten became Captain (D) (commander) of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla aboard HMS Kelly, which became famous for its exploits.[25] In late 1939 he brought the Duke of Windsor back from exile in France and in early May 1940 Mountbatten led a British convoy in through the fog to evacuate the Allied forces participating in the Namsos campaign during the Norwegian campaign.[28]

On the night of 9–10 May 1940, Kelly was torpedoed amidships by a German E-boat S 31 off the Dutch coast, and Mountbatten thereafter commanded the 5th Destroyer Flotilla from the destroyer HMS Javelin.[28] On 29 November 1940 the 5th Flotilla engaged three German destroyers off Lizard Point, Cornwall. Mountbatten turned to port to match a German course change. This was "a rather disastrous move as the directors swung off and lost target"[31] and it resulted in Javelin being struck by two torpedoes. He rejoined Kelly in December 1940, by which time the torpedo damage had been repaired.[28]

Kelly was sunk by German dive bombers on 23 May 1941 during the Battle of Crete;[32] the incident serving as the basis for Noël Coward's film In Which We Serve.[33] Coward was a personal friend of Mountbatten and copied some of his speeches into the film.[32] Mountbatten was mentioned in despatches on 9 August 1940[34] and 21 March 1941[35] and awarded the Distinguished Service Order in January 1941.[36]

(Front row, L–R) Walter Short, Mountbatten and Husband E. Kimmel (Back row) Frederick Martin and Patrick Bellinger in Hawaii 1941

In August 1941, Mountbatten was appointed captain of the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious which lay in Norfolk, Virginia, for repairs following action at Malta in January.[32] During this period of relative inactivity, he paid a flying visit to Pearl Harbor, three months before the Japanese attack on it. Mountbatten, appalled at the US naval base's lack of preparedness, drawing on Japan's history of launching wars with surprise attacks as well as the successful British surprise attack at the Battle of Taranto which had effectively knocked Italy's fleet out of the war, and the sheer effectiveness of aircraft against warships, accurately predicted that the US would enter the war after a Japanese surprise attack on Pearl Harbor.[32][37]

Clockwise from lower right, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill, Sir Hastings 'Pug' Ismay, Mountbatten: January 1943 at the Casablanca Conference

Mountbatten was a favourite of Winston Churchill.[38] On 27 October 1941, Mountbatten replaced Admiral of the Fleet Sir Roger Keyes as Chief of Combined Operations Headquarters and was promoted to commodore.[32]

His duties in this role included inventing new technical aids to assist with opposed landings.[25] Noteworthy technical achievements of Mountbatten and his staff include the construction of "PLUTO", an underwater oil pipeline to Normandy, an artificial Mulberry harbour constructed of concrete caissons and sunken ships, and the development of tank-landing ships.[25] Another project Mountbatten proposed to Churchill was Project Habakkuk. It was to be an unsinkable 600-metre aircraft carrier made from reinforced ice ("Pykrete"); Habakkuk was never carried out due to its enormous cost.[25]

Mountbatten in 1943

As commander of Combined Operations, Mountbatten and his staff planned the highly successful Bruneval raid, which gained important information and captured part of a German Würzburg radar installation and one of the machine's technicians on 27 February 1942. It was Mountbatten who recognised that surprise and speed were essential to capture the radar, and saw that an airborne assault was the only viable method.[39]

On 18 March 1942, he was promoted to the acting rank of vice admiral and given the honorary ranks of lieutenant general[40] and air marshal to have the authority to carry out his duties in Combined Operations; and, despite the misgivings of General Sir Alan Brooke, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff,[41] Mountbatten was placed in the Chiefs of Staff Committee.[42] He was in large part responsible for the planning and organisation of the St Nazaire Raid on 28 March, which put out of action one of the most heavily defended docks in Nazi-occupied France until well after the war's end, the ramifications of which contributed to allied supremacy in the Battle of the Atlantic. After the successes at Bruneval and St Nazaire came the disastrous Dieppe Raid of 19 August 1942. He was central in the planning and promotion of the raid on the port of Dieppe. The raid was a marked failure, with casualties of almost 60%, the great majority of them Canadians.[32] Following the Dieppe Raid, Mountbatten became a controversial figure in Canada, with the Royal Canadian Legion distancing itself from him during his visits there during his later career.[43] His relations with Canadian veterans, who blamed him for the losses, "remained frosty" after the war.[44]

Mountbatten during his tour of the Arakan campaign in Burma in February 1944

Mountbatten claimed that the lessons learned from the Dieppe Raid were necessary for planning the Normandy invasion on D-Day nearly two years later. However, military historians such as Major General Julian Thompson, a former member of the Royal Marines, have written that these lessons should not have needed a debacle such as Dieppe to be recognised.[45] Nevertheless, as a direct result of the failings of the Dieppe Raid, the British made several innovations, most notably Hobart's Funnies, specialised armoured vehicles which, in the course of the Normandy Landings, undoubtedly saved many lives on those three beachheads upon which Commonwealth soldiers were landing (Gold Beach, Juno Beach and Sword Beach).[46]

### SEAC and Burma campaign

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In August 1943, Churchill appointed Mountbatten the Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command (SEAC) with promotion to acting full admiral.[32] His less practical ideas were sidelined by an experienced planning staff led by Lieutenant-Colonel James Allason, though some, such as a proposal to launch an amphibious assault near Rangoon, got as far as Churchill before being quashed.[47]

Mountbatten's address on the steps of Singapore's Municipal Building after the surrender

British interpreter Hugh Lunghi recounted an embarrassing episode during the Potsdam Conference when Mountbatten, desiring to receive an invitation to visit the Soviet Union, repeatedly attempted to impress Joseph Stalin with his former connections to the Russian imperial family. The attempt fell predictably flat, with Stalin dryly inquiring whether "it was some time ago that he had been there". Says Lunghi, "The meeting was embarrassing because Stalin was so unimpressed. He offered no invitation. Mountbatten left with his tail between his legs."[48]

During his time as Supreme Allied Commander of the Southeast Asia Theatre, his command oversaw the recapture of Burma from the Japanese by General Sir William Slim.[49] A personal high point was the receipt of the Japanese surrender in Singapore when British troops returned to the island to receive the formal surrender of Japanese forces in the region led by General Itagaki Seishiro on 12 September 1945, codenamed Operation Tiderace.[50] South East Asia Command was disbanded in May 1946 and Mountbatten returned home with the substantive rank of  rear-admiral.[51] That year, he was made a Knight Companion of the Garter and created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, of Romsey in the County of Southampton, as a victory title for war service. He was then in 1947 further created Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey, of Romsey in the County of Southampton.[52][53]

Following the war, Mountbatten was known to have largely shunned the Japanese for the rest of his life out of respect for his men killed during the war and, as per his will, Japan was not invited to send diplomatic representatives to his funeral in 1979, though he did meet Emperor Hirohito during his state visit to Britain in 1971, reportedly at the urging of the Queen.[54]

## Viceroy of India

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Main article: Partition of India

Mountbatten's experience in the region and in particular his perceived Labour sympathies at that time, alongside his wife's longstanding friendship and collaboration with V. K. Krishna Menon, led to Menon putting forth Mountbatten's name alone as a viceregal candidate acceptable to the Indian National Congress, in clandestine meetings with Sir Stafford Cripps and Clement Attlee.[55] Attlee advised King George VI to appoint Mountbatten Viceroy of India on 20 February 1947[56][57] charged with overseeing the transition of British India to independence no later than 30 June 1948. Mountbatten's instructions were to avoid partition and preserve a united India as a result of the transfer of power but authorised him to adapt to a changing situation in order to get Britain out promptly with minimal reputational damage.[58][59]

Mountbatten arrived in India on 22 March by air, from London. In the evening, he was taken to his residence and two days later, he took the Viceregal oath. His arrival saw large-scale communal riots in Delhi, Bombay and Rawalpindi. Mountbatten concluded that the situation was too volatile to wait even a year before granting independence to India. Although his advisers favoured a gradual transfer of independence, Mountbatten decided the only way forward was a quick and orderly transfer of power before 1947 was out. In his view, any longer would mean civil war.[60] Mountbatten also hurried so he could return to the Royal Navy.[61][62]

Lord and Lady Mountbatten at Mussoorie with Congress leader Sardar Patel, his daughter Manibehn Patel and Nehru in the background

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Mahatma Gandhi, 1947

Mountbatten was fond of Congress leader Jawaharlal Nehru and his liberal outlook for the country, and, through the efforts of their close mutual friend, Krishna Menon, developed a certain depth of feeling and intimacy with Nehru that was shared by his wife, Edwina. He felt differently about the Muslim League leader Muhammad Ali Jinnah, but was aware of his power, stating "If it could be said that any single man held the future of India in the palm of his hand in 1947, that man was Mohammad Ali Jinnah."[62] During his meeting with Jinnah on 5 April 1947,[63] Mountbatten tried to persuade him of a united India, citing the difficult task of dividing the mixed states of Punjab and Bengal, but the Muslim leader was unyielding in his goal of establishing a separate Muslim state called Pakistan.[64]

Mountbatten meeting with Jawaharlal Nehru (left) and Muhammad Ali Jinnah (right) in discussing the partition of British India, 1947.

Given the British government's recommendations to grant independence quickly, Mountbatten concluded that a united India was an unachievable goal and resigned himself to a plan for partition, creating the independent nations of India and Pakistan.[25] Mountbatten set a date for the transfer of power from the British to the Indians, arguing that a fixed timeline would convince Indians of his and the British government's sincerity in working towards a swift and efficient independence, excluding all possibilities of stalling the process.[65]

Mountbatten's proposed flag for India, consisting of the flag of the Indian National Congress defaced with a Union Jack in the canton. It was rejected by Nehru, as he felt that the more extremist members of Congress would see the inclusion of the Union Jack on an Indian flag as pandering to the British.[66]

Mountbatten's proposed flag for Pakistan, consisting of the flag of the Muslim League defaced with a Union Jack in the canton. It was rejected by Jinnah, as he felt that a flag featuring a Christian Cross alongside the Islamic Crescent would be unacceptable to the Muslims of Pakistan.[66]

Among the Indian leaders, Mahatma Gandhi emphatically insisted on maintaining a united India and for a while successfully rallied people to this goal. During his meeting with Mountbatten, Gandhi asked Mountbatten to invite Jinnah to form a new central government, but Mountbatten never uttered a word of Gandhi's ideas to Jinnah.[67] When Mountbatten's timeline offered the prospect of attaining independence soon, sentiments took a different turn. Given Mountbatten's determination, Nehru and Sardar Patel's inability to deal with the Muslim League and, lastly, Jinnah's obstinacy, all Indian party leaders (except Gandhi) acquiesced to Jinnah's plan to divide India,[68] which in turn eased Mountbatten's task. Mountbatten also developed a strong relationship with the Indian princes, who ruled those portions of India not directly under British rule. His intervention was decisive in persuading the vast majority of them to see advantages in opting to join the Indian Union.[69] On one hand, the integration of the princely states can be viewed as one of the positive aspects of his legacy[70] but on the other, the refusal of Hyderabad, Jammu and Kashmir, and Junagadh to join one of the dominions led to future wars between Pakistan and India.[71]

Mountbatten brought forward the date of the partition from June 1948 to 15 August 1947.[72] The uncertainty of the borders caused Muslims and Hindus to move into the direction where they felt they would get the majority. Hindus and Muslims were thoroughly terrified, and the Muslim movement from the East was balanced by the similar movement of Hindus from the West.[73] A boundary committee chaired by Sir Cyril Radcliffe was charged with drawing boundaries for the new nations. With a mandate to leave as many Hindus and Sikhs in India and as many Muslims in Pakistan as possible, Radcliffe came up with a map that split the two countries along the Punjab and Bengal borders. This left 14 million people on the "wrong" side of the border, and very many of them fled to "safety" on the other side when the new lines were announced.[60][74]

### Independence of India and Pakistan

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Mountbatten with Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of sovereign India, in Government House. Lady Mountbatten is standing to their left.

When India and Pakistan attained independence at midnight of 14–15 August 1947, Mountbatten was alone in his study at the Viceroy's house saying to himself just before the clock struck midnight that for still a few minutes, he was the most powerful man on Earth. At 12 am, as a last act of showmanship, he created Joan Falkiner, the Australian wife of the Nawab of Palanpur, a highness, an act that was apparently one of his favourite duties that was annulled at the stroke of midnight.[75]

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali Jinnah.

Notwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence – notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne, and Freedom at Midnight by Dominique Lapierre and Larry Collins (of which he was the main quoted source) – his record is seen as very mixed. One common view is that he hastened the process of independence unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on his watch, but thereby actually helping it to occur (albeit in an indirect manner), especially in Punjab and Bengal.[76] John Kenneth Galbraith, the Canadian-American Harvard University economist, who advised governments of India during the 1950s and was an intimate of Nehru who served as the American ambassador from 1961 to 1963, was a particularly harsh critic of Mountbatten in this regard.[77] However, another view is that the British were forced to expedite the partition process to avoid involvement in a potential civil war with law and order having already broken down and Britain with limited resources after the Second World War.[78][79] According to historian Lawrence James, Mountbatten was left with no other option but to cut and run, with the alternative being involvement in a potential civil war that would be difficult to get out of.[78]

The creation of Pakistan was never emotionally accepted by many British leaders, among them Mountbatten.[80] Mountbatten clearly expressed his lack of support and faith in the Muslim League's idea of Pakistan.[81] Jinnah refused Mountbatten's offer to serve as Governor-General of Pakistan.[82] When Mountbatten was asked by Collins and Lapierre if he would have sabotaged the creation of Pakistan had he known that Jinnah was dying of tuberculosis, he replied, "Most probably".[83]

### Governor-General of India

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Mountbatten became the first Governor-General of independent India on 15 August 1947 upon the request of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Life magazine noted on his reception in India that, "The people gathered in the streets to cheer Mountbatten as no European had ever been cheered before."[84]

During his reign as governor-general until 21 June 1948, he played a significant role in the political integration of India and persuaded many princely states to join India.[1][85] On Mountbatten's advice, India took the issue of Kashmir to the newly formed United Nations in January 1948.[86] Accounts differ on the future which Mountbatten desired for Kashmir. Pakistani accounts suggest that Mountbatten favoured the accession of Kashmir to India, citing his close relationship to Nehru. Mountbatten's own account says that he simply wanted Maharaja Hari Singh to make up his mind. The viceroy made several attempts to mediate between the Congress leaders, Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Hari Singh on issues relating to the accession of Kashmir, though he was largely unsuccessful in resolving the conflict.[87] After the tribal invasion of Kashmir, it was on his suggestion that India moved to secure the accession of Kashmir from Hari Singh before sending in military forces for his defence.[88]

After his tenure as governor-general concluded, Mountbatten continued to enjoy close relations with Nehru and the post-Independence Indian leadership, and was welcomed as a former governor-general of India on subsequent visits to the country, including during an official trip in March 1956. The Pakistani government, by contrast, lacked a positive view of Mountbatten for his perceived hostile attitude towards Pakistan and deemed him persona non grata, barring him from transiting their airspace during the same visit.[89]

## Later career

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Mountbatten inspects Malayan troops in Kensington Gardens in 1946

After India, Mountbatten served as commander of the 1st Cruiser Squadron in the Mediterranean Fleet and, having been granted the substantive rank of vice-admiral on 22 June 1949,[90] he became Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet in April 1950.[85] He became Fourth Sea Lord at the Admiralty in June 1950. He then returned to the Mediterranean to serve as Commander-in-Chief, Mediterranean Fleet and NATO Commander Allied Forces Mediterranean from June 1952.[85] He was promoted to the substantive rank of full admiral on 27 February 1953.[91] In March 1953, he was appointed Personal Aide-de-Camp to the Queen.[92]

Mountbatten arrives on board HMS Glasgow at Malta to assume command of the Mediterranean Fleet, 16 May 1952

Mountbatten served his final posting at the Admiralty as First Sea Lord and Chief of the Naval Staff from April 1955 to July 1959, the position which his father had held some forty years before. This was the first time in Royal Naval history that a father and son had both attained such high office.[93] He was promoted to Admiral of the Fleet on 22 October 1956.[94]

In the Suez Crisis of 1956, Mountbatten strongly advised his old friend Prime Minister Anthony Eden against the Conservative government's plans to seize the Suez Canal in conjunction with France and Israel. He argued that such a move would destabilize the Middle East, undermine the authority of the United Nations, divide the Commonwealth and diminish Britain's global standing. His advice was not taken. Eden insisted that Mountbatten not resign. Instead, he worked hard to prepare the Royal Navy for war with characteristic professionalism and thoroughness.[95][96][97]

Despite his military rank, Mountbatten was ignorant as to the physics involved in a nuclear explosion and had to be reassured that the fission reactions from the Bikini Atoll tests would not spread through the oceans and blow up the planet.[98] As Mountbatten became more familiar with this new form of weaponry, he increasingly grew opposed to its use in combat. Yet, he realised the potential for nuclear energy, especially with regard to submarines. Mountbatten expressed his feelings towards the use of nuclear weapons in combat in his article "A Military Commander Surveys The Nuclear Arms Race", which was published shortly after his death in International Security in the Winter of 1979–1980.[99]

After leaving the Admiralty, Mountbatten took the position of Chief of the Defence Staff.[85] He served in this post for six years during which he was able to consolidate the three service departments of the military branch into a single Ministry of Defence.[100] Ian Jacob, co-author of the 1963 Report on the Central Organisation of Defence that served as the basis of these reforms, described Mountbatten as "universally mistrusted in spite of his great qualities".[101] On their election in October 1964, the Wilson ministry had to decide whether to renew his appointment the following July. The Defence Secretary, Denis Healey, interviewed the forty most senior officials in the Ministry of Defence; only one, Sir Kenneth Strong, a personal friend of Mountbatten, recommended his reappointment.[101] "When I told Dickie of my decision not to reappoint him," recalls Healey, "he slapped his thigh and roared with delight; but his eyes told a different story."[101]

Mountbatten was appointed Colonel of The Life Guards and Gold Stick in Waiting on 29 January 1965[102] and Life Colonel Commandant of the Royal Marines the same year.[103] He was Governor of the Isle of Wight from 20 July 1965[104] and then the first Lord Lieutenant of the Isle of Wight from 1 April 1974.[105]

Mountbatten with John F. Kennedy in the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., 11 April 1961 Louis Mountbatten during a 1967 visit to Israel

Mountbatten was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society[25] and had received an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in 1968.[106]

In 1969, Mountbatten tried unsuccessfully to persuade his second cousin, the Spanish pretender Infante Juan, Count of Barcelona, to ease the eventual accession of his son, Juan Carlos, to the Spanish throne by signing a declaration of abdication while in exile.[107] The next year Mountbatten attended an official White House dinner during which he took the opportunity to have a 20-minute conversation with Richard Nixon and Secretary of State William P. Rogers, about which he later wrote, "I was able to talk to the President a bit about both Tino [Constantine II of Greece] and Juanito [Juan Carlos of Spain] to try and put over their respective points of view about Greece and Spain, and how I felt the US could help them."[107] In January 1971, Nixon hosted Juan Carlos and his wife Sofia (sister of the exiled King Constantine) during a visit to Washington and later that year The Washington Post published an article alleging that Nixon's administration was seeking to persuade Franco to retire in favour of the young Bourbon prince.[107]

From 1967 until 1978, Mountbatten was president of the United World Colleges Organisation, then represented by a single college: that of Atlantic College in South Wales. Mountbatten supported the United World Colleges and encouraged heads of state, politicians, and personalities throughout the world to share his interest. Under his presidency and personal involvement, the United World College of South East Asia was established in Singapore in 1971, followed by the United World College of the Pacific in Victoria, British Columbia, in 1974. In 1978, Mountbatten passed the presidency of the college to his great-nephew, Charles, Prince of Wales.[108]

Mountbatten also helped to launch the International Baccalaureate; in 1971 he presented the first IB diplomas in the Greek Theatre of the International School of Geneva, Switzerland.[109][110][111]

In 1975 Mountbatten finally visited the Soviet Union, leading the delegation from UK as personal representative of Queen Elizabeth II at the celebrations to mark the 30th anniversary of Victory Day in Second World War in Moscow.[112]

## Alleged plots against Harold Wilson

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Main article: Harold Wilson conspiracy theories § The 1968 plot

Peter Wright, in his 1987 book Spycatcher, claimed that in May 1968 Mountbatten attended a private meeting with press baron Cecil King and the government's Chief Scientific Adviser, Solly Zuckerman. Wright alleged that "up to thirty" MI5 officers had joined a secret campaign to undermine the crisis-stricken Labour government of Harold Wilson and that King was an MI5 agent. In the meeting, King allegedly urged Mountbatten to become the leader of a government of national salvation. Solly Zuckerman pointed out that it was "rank treachery" and the idea came to nothing because of Mountbatten's reluctance to act.[113] In contrast, Andrew Lownie has suggested that it took the intervention of the Queen to dissuade Mountbatten from plotting against Wilson.[114]

In 2006, the BBC documentary The Plot Against Harold Wilson alleged that there had been another plot involving Mountbatten to oust Wilson during his second term in office (1974–1976). The period was characterised by high inflation, increasing unemployment, and widespread industrial unrest. The alleged plot revolved around right-wing former military figures who were supposedly building private armies to counter the perceived threat from trade unions and the Soviet Union. They believed that the Labour Party was unable and unwilling to counter these developments and that Wilson was either a Soviet agent or at the very least a Communist sympathiser – claims Wilson strongly denied. The documentary makers alleged that a coup was planned to overthrow Wilson and replace him with Mountbatten using the private armies and sympathisers in the military and MI5.[115]

The first official history of MI5, The Defence of the Realm (2009), implied that there was a plot against Wilson and that MI5 did have a file on him. Yet it also made clear that the plot was in no way official and that any activity centred on a small group of discontented officers. This much had already been confirmed by former cabinet secretary Lord Hunt, who concluded in a secret inquiry conducted in 1996 that "there is absolutely no doubt at all that a few, a very few, malcontents in MI5 ... a lot of them like Peter Wright who were right-wing, malicious and had serious personal grudges – gave vent to these and spread damaging malicious stories about that Labour government."[116]

## Personal life

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### Marriage

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Louis and Edwina Mountbatten

Mountbatten was married on 18 July 1922 to Edwina Cynthia Annette Ashley, daughter of Wilfred William Ashley, later 1st Baron Mount Temple, himself a grandson of the 7th Earl of Shaftesbury. She was the favourite granddaughter of the Edwardian magnate Sir Ernest Cassel and the principal heir to his fortune. The couple spent heavily on households, luxuries, and entertainment.[11] There followed a honeymoon tour of European royal courts and North America which included a visit to Niagara Falls (because "all honeymooners went there").[6] During their honeymoon in California, the newlyweds starred in a silent home movie by Charlie Chaplin called Nice And Friendly, which was not shown in cinemas.[117][118]

Mountbatten admitted: "Edwina and I spent all our married lives getting into other people's beds."[119] He maintained an affair for several years with Yola Letellier,[120] the wife of Henri Letellier, publisher of Le Journal and mayor of Deauville (1925–28).[121] Yola Letellier's life story was the inspiration for Colette's novel Gigi.[120]

After Edwina died in 1960, Mountbatten was involved in relationships with young women, according to his daughter Patricia, his secretary John Barratt, his valet Bill Evans, and William Stadiem, an employee of Madame Claude.[122] He had a long-running affair with American actress Shirley MacLaine, whom he met in the 1960s.[123]

### Sexual allegations

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In 2019, Ron Perks, Mountbatten's driver in Malta in 1948, alleged that he used to visit the Red House, an upmarket gay brothel in Rabat used by naval officers.[124] Andrew Lownie, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, wrote that the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) maintained files regarding Mountbatten's alleged homosexuality.[125] Lownie also interviewed several young men who claimed to have been in a relationship with Mountbatten. John Barratt, Mountbatten's personal and private secretary for 20 years,[126] has said Mountbatten was not a homosexual, and that it would have been impossible for such a fact to have been hidden from him.[122]

In 2019, files became public showing that the FBI knew in the 1940s of allegations that Mountbatten was homosexual and a paedophile.[127] The FBI file on Mountbatten, begun after he took on the role of Supreme Allied Commander in Southeast Asia in 1944, describes Mountbatten and his wife Edwina as "persons of extremely low morals", and contains a claim by American author Elizabeth, Baroness Decies, that Mountbatten was known to be a homosexual and had "a perversion for young boys".[125][128] Norman Nield, Mountbatten's driver from 1942 to 1943, told the tabloid New Zealand Truth that he transported young boys aged 8 to 12 who had been procured for the Admiral to Mountbatten's official residence and was paid to keep quiet. Robin Bryans had also claimed to the Irish magazine Now that Mountbatten and Anthony Blunt, along with others, were part of a ring that engaged in homosexual orgies and procured boys in their first year at public schools such as the Portora Royal School in Enniskillen. Former residents of the Kincora Boys' Home in Belfast have asserted that they were trafficked to Mountbatten at Classiebawn Castle, his residence in Mullaghmore, County Sligo.[129][130][131] These claims were dismissed by the Historical Institution Abuse (HIA) Inquiry.[132][122][133] The HIA stated that the article making the original allegations "did not give any basis for the assertions that any of these people [Mountbatten and others] were connected with Kincora".[132]

In October 2022 Arthur Smyth, a former resident of Kincora, waived his anonymity to make allegations of child abuse against Mountbatten.[134] The allegations are part of a civil case against state authorities responsible for the care of children in Kincora.[134] Smyth claims that he was raped twice by Mountbatten in encounters facilitated by the house father of Kincora.[135]

### Daughter as heir

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Lord and Lady Mountbatten had two daughters: Patricia Knatchbull (14 February 1924 – 13 June 2017),[136] sometime lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth II, and Lady Pamela Hicks (born 19 April 1929), who accompanied them to India in 1947–1948 and was also sometime lady-in-waiting to the Queen.[4]

Since Mountbatten had no sons when he was created Viscount Mountbatten of Burma, of Romsey in the County of Southampton on 27 August 1946[137] and then Earl Mountbatten of Burma and Baron Romsey, in the County of Southampton on 18 October 1947,[138] the Letters Patent were drafted such that in the event he left no sons or issue in the male line, the titles could pass to his daughters, in order of seniority of birth.[53]

### Leisure interests

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Mountbatten was passionate about genealogy, an interest he shared with other European royalty and nobility; according to Ziegler, he spent a great deal of his leisure time in studying his links with European royal houses.[139] From 1957 until his death, Lord Mountbatten was Patron of the Cambridge University Heraldic and Genealogical Society.[140] He was equally passionate about orders, decorations and military ranks and uniforms, though he considered this interest to be a sign of vanity and constantly tried to distance himself from it, with limited success.[141] Over the course of his career, he consistently attempted to secure as many orders and decorations as possible.[142] Particular about details of dress, Mountbatten took an interest in fashion design, introducing trouser zips, a tail-coat with broad, high lapels and a "buttonless waistcoat" that could be pulled on over the head.[143] In 1949, having by then relinquished the office of Governor-General of India but retaining a keen interest in Indian affairs, he designed new flags, insignia, and details of uniforms for the Indian Armed Forces ahead of the transition from British dominion to republic; many of his designs were implemented and remain in use.[144]

Like many members of the royal family, Mountbatten was an aficionado of polo. Mountbatten introduced the sport to the Royal Navy in the 1920s and wrote a book on the subject.[6] He received US patent 1,993,334 in 1931 for a polo stick.[145] He also served as Commodore of Emsworth Sailing Club in Hampshire from 1931.[146] He was a long-serving Patron of the Society for Nautical Research (1951–1979).[147] Apart from official documents, Mountbatten was not much of a reader, though he liked P. G. Wodehouse's books. He enjoyed the cinema; his favourite stars were Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Grace Kelly and Shirley MacLaine. In general, however, he had a limited interest in the arts.[141]

### Mentorship of King Charles III

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Mountbatten was a strong influence in the upbringing of his great-nephew, the future King Charles III, and later as a mentor – "Honorary Grandfather" and "Honorary Grandson", they fondly called each other according to the Jonathan Dimbleby biography of the then-Prince – though according to both the Ziegler biography of Mountbatten and the Dimbleby biography of the Prince, the results may have been mixed. He from time to time strongly upbraided the Prince for showing tendencies towards the idle pleasure-seeking dilettantism of his predecessor as Prince of Wales, King Edward VIII, whom Mountbatten had known well in their youth. Yet he also encouraged the Prince to enjoy the bachelor life while he could, and then to marry a young and inexperienced girl so as to ensure a stable married life.[148]

Mountbatten's qualification for offering advice to this particular heir to the throne was unique; it was he who had arranged the visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth to Dartmouth Royal Naval College on 22 July 1939, taking care to include the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret in the invitation, but assigning his nephew, Cadet Prince Philip of Greece, to keep them amused while their parents toured the facility. This was the first recorded meeting of Charles's future parents[149] but a few months later, Mountbatten's efforts nearly came to naught when he received a letter from his sister Alice in Athens informing him that Philip was visiting her and had agreed to repatriate permanently to Greece. Within days, Philip received a command from his cousin and sovereign, King George II of Greece, to resume his naval career in Britain which, though given without explanation, the young prince obeyed.[150]

In 1974, Mountbatten began corresponding with Charles about a potential marriage to his granddaughter, Amanda Knatchbull, who was also Charles's second cousin.[151] It was about this time he also recommended that the 25-year-old prince get on with "sowing some wild oats".[151] Charles dutifully wrote to Amanda's mother (who was also his godmother and his father's first cousin), Lady Brabourne, about his interest. Her answer was supportive, but advised him that she thought her daughter still rather young to be courted.[152]

In February 1975, Charles visited New Delhi to play polo and was shown around Rashtrapati Bhavan, the former Viceroy's House, by Mountbatten.[153]

Four years later, Mountbatten secured an invitation for himself and Amanda to accompany Charles on his planned 1980 tour of India.[152] Their fathers promptly objected. Prince Philip thought that the Indian public's reception would more likely reflect their response to the uncle than to the nephew. Lord Brabourne counselled that the intense scrutiny of the press would be more likely to drive Mountbatten's godson and granddaughter apart than together.[152]

Charles was rescheduled to tour India alone, but Mountbatten did not live to the planned date of departure. When Charles finally did propose marriage to Amanda later in 1979, the circumstances were changed and she refused him.[152]

## Television appearances

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In 1969, a documentary consisting of 12 mini-series titled The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten which were presented by the latter, retraced his debut which crossed path which historical events of the century.[154]

On 27 April 1977, shortly before his 77th birthday, Mountbatten became the first member of the Royal Family to appear on the TV guest show This Is Your Life.[155] In the UK, 22.22 million people tuned in to watch the programme.[156]

## Assassination

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Main article: Assassination of Louis Mountbatten

Christ in Triumph over Darkness and Evil by Gabriel Loire (1982) at St. George's Cathedral, Cape Town, South Africa, in memory of Mountbatten

Mountbatten usually holidayed at his summer home, Classiebawn Castle, on the Mullaghmore Peninsula in County Sligo, in the north-west of Ireland. The village was only 12 miles (19 km) from the border with County Fermanagh in Northern Ireland and near an area known to be used as a cross-border refuge by IRA members.[157][158] In 1978, the IRA had allegedly attempted to shoot Mountbatten as he was aboard his boat, but poor weather had prevented the sniper taking his shot.[159]

On 27 August 1979, Mountbatten went lobster-potting and tuna fishing in his 30-foot (9-metre) wooden boat, Shadow V, which had been moored in the harbour at Mullaghmore.[158] IRA member Thomas McMahon had slipped onto the unguarded boat the previous night and attached a radio-controlled bomb weighing 50 pounds (23 kg). When Mountbatten and his party had taken the boat just a few hundred yards from the shore, the bomb was detonated. The boat was destroyed by the force of the blast and Mountbatten's legs were almost blown off. Mountbatten, then aged 79, was pulled alive from the water by nearby fishermen, but died from his injuries before being brought to shore.[158][160][161]

Also aboard the boat were his elder daughter Patricia, Lady Brabourne; her husband Lord Brabourne; their twin sons Nicholas and Timothy Knatchbull; Lord Brabourne's mother Doreen, Dowager Lady Brabourne; and Paul Maxwell, a young crew member from Enniskillen in County Fermanagh.[162] Nicholas (aged 14) and Paul (aged 15) were killed by the blast and the others were seriously injured.[163] Doreen, Dowager Lady Brabourne (aged 83), died from her injuries the following day.[93]

The attack triggered outrage and condemnation around the world.[164] Queen Elizabeth II received messages of condolence from leaders including US President Jimmy Carter and Pope John Paul II.[165] Carter expressed his "profound sadness" at the death.[166] The Irish American community was disgusted with the attack, especially since many American soldiers served under Mountbatten during World War II.[167][168][169] Jim Rooney, son of Pittsburgh Steelers president Dan M. Rooney (who co-founded The Ireland Funds in 1976), recalled that:

> Mountbatten's murder shocked many Irish-Americans, my parents included, because they remembered him for the role he played in defeating the Axis. "It was quite sad because being in America, you were familiar with Lord Mountbatten because of World War II," my mother recalled. "It was a very sad time." But my father didn't give in to despair. "That didn't slow down [my father] one bit. It more or less gave him more energy," my mother said.[167]

Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said:

> His death leaves a gap that can never be filled. The British people give thanks for his life and grieve at his passing.[170]

George Colley, the Tánaiste (Deputy head of the Government of Ireland), said:

> No effort will be spared to bring those responsible to justice. It is understood that subversives have claimed responsibility for the explosion. Assuming that police investigations substantiate the claim, I know that the Irish people will join me in condemning this heartless and terrible outrage.[170]

The IRA issued a statement afterward, saying:

> The IRA claim responsibility for the execution of Lord Louis Mountbatten. This operation is one of the discriminate ways we can bring to the attention of the English people the continuing occupation of our country. ... The death of Mountbatten and the tributes paid to him will be seen in sharp contrast to the apathy of the British Government and the English people to the deaths of over three hundred British soldiers, and the deaths of Irish men, women, and children at the hands of their forces.[157][171]

Six weeks later,[172] Sinn Féin vice-president Gerry Adams said of Mountbatten's death:

> The IRA gave clear reasons for the execution. I think it is unfortunate that anyone has to be killed, but the furor created by Mountbatten's death showed up the hypocritical attitude of the media establishment. As a member of the House of Lords, Mountbatten was an emotional figure in both British and Irish politics. What the IRA did to him is what Mountbatten had been doing all his life to other people; and with his war record I don't think he could have objected to dying in what was clearly a war situation. He knew the danger involved in coming to this country. In my opinion, the IRA achieved its objective: people started paying attention to what was happening in Ireland.[172]

Indian prime minister Charan Singh remarked:

> Here in India, he will be remembered as a Viceroy and a Governor General who at the time of India's Independence gave us abundantly of his wisdom and goodwill. It was in recognition of our affection for him, respect for his impartiality and regard for his concern for India's freedom that the entire nation readily accepted Lord Mountbatten as the first Governor General of Independent India . His drive and vigour helped in the difficult period after our Independence.[173]

In India, a week of national mourning was declared over Mountbatten's death.[174] Burma had announced a 3-day period of mourning.[175]

In 2015, Adams said in an interview, "I stand over what I said then. I'm not one of those people that engages in revisionism. Thankfully the war is over."[176]

On the day of the bombing, the IRA also ambushed and killed eighteen British soldiers at the gates of Narrow Water Castle, just outside Warrenpoint, in County Down in Northern Ireland, sixteen of them from the Parachute Regiment, in what became known as the Warrenpoint ambush.[177] It was the deadliest attack on the British Army during the Troubles.[158]

### Funeral

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Main article: Funeral of Lord Mountbatten

Mountbatten's tomb at Romsey Abbey in Hampshire, near to his home, Broadlands.

On 5 September 1979, Mountbatten received a ceremonial funeral at Westminster Abbey, which was attended by Queen Elizabeth II, the royal family, and members of the European royal houses. Watched by thousands of people, the funeral procession, which started at Wellington Barracks, included representatives of all three British Armed Services, and military contingents from Burma, India, the United States (represented by 70 sailors of the US Navy and 50 US Marines[178]), France (represented by the French Navy) and Canada. His coffin was drawn on a gun carriage by 118 Royal Navy ratings.[179][180] Mountbatten's funeral was the first major royal funeral to be held in the Abbey since the 18th century.[181] During the televised service, his great-nephew Charles read the lesson from Psalm 107.[179] In an address, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Donald Coggan, highlighted his various achievements and his "lifelong devotion to the Royal Navy".[182] After the public ceremonies, which he had planned himself, Mountbatten was buried in Romsey Abbey.[183][184] As part of the funeral arrangements, his body had been embalmed by Desmond Henley.[185]

### Aftermath

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Two hours before the bomb detonated, Thomas McMahon had been arrested at a Garda checkpoint between Longford and Granard on suspicion of driving a stolen vehicle. He was tried for the assassinations in Ireland and convicted on 23 November 1979 based on forensic evidence supplied by James O'Donovan that showed flecks of paint from the boat and traces of nitroglycerine on his clothes.[186] He was released in 1998 under the terms of the Good Friday Agreement.[158][187]

On hearing of Mountbatten's death, the then Master of the Queen's Music, Malcolm Williamson, wrote the Lament in Memory of Lord Mountbatten of Burma for violin and string orchestra. The 11-minute work was given its first performance on 5 May 1980 by the Scottish Baroque Ensemble, conducted by Leonard Friedman.[188]

On his death his estate was valued for probate purposes at £2,196,494 (equivalent to £14,000,000 in 2023).[189]

## Legacy

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Mountbatten's faults, according to his biographer Philip Ziegler, like everything else about him, "were on the grandest scale. His vanity though child-like, was monstrous, his ambition unbridled ... He sought to rewrite history with cavalier indifference to the facts to magnify his own achievements."[190] However, Ziegler concludes that Mountbatten's virtues outweighed his defects:[190]

> He was generous and loyal ... He was warm-hearted, predisposed to like everyone he met, quick-tempered but never bearing grudges ... His tolerance was extraordinary; his readiness to respect and listen to the views of others was remarkable throughout his life.

Ziegler argues he was truly a great man, and despite being an executor of a policy, not initiator, he came to be known as its creator.[190]

> What he could do with superlative aplomb was to identify the object at which he was aiming, and force it through to its conclusion. A powerful, analytic mind of crystalline clarity, a superabundance of energy, great persuasive powers, endless resilience in the face of setback or disaster rendered him the most formidable of operators. He was infinitely resourceful, quick in his reactions, always ready to cut his losses and start again ... He was an executor of policy rather than an initiator; but whatever the policy, he espoused it with such energy and enthusiasm, made it so completely his own, that it became identified with him and, in the eyes of the outside world as well as his own, his creation.

Others were not so conflicted. Field Marshal Sir Gerald Templer, the former Chief of the Imperial General Staff, once told him, "You are so crooked, Dickie, that if you swallowed a nail, you would shit a corkscrew".[191]

Mountbatten supported the burgeoning nationalist movements which grew up in the shadow of Japanese occupation. His priority was to maintain practical, stable government, but driving him was an idealism in which he believed every people should be allowed to control their own destiny. Critics said he was too ready to overlook their faults, and especially their subordination to communist control. Ziegler says that in Malaya, where the main resistance to the Japanese came from Chinese who were under considerable communist influence, "Mountbatten proved to have been naïve in his assessment. ... He erred, however, not because he was 'soft on Communism' ... but from an over-readiness to assume the best of those with whom he had dealings." Furthermore, Ziegler argues, he was following a practical policy based on the assumption that it would take a long and bloody struggle to drive the Japanese out, and he needed the support of all the anti-Japanese elements, most of which were either nationalists or communists.[192]

Mountbatten took pride in enhancing intercultural understanding and in 1984, with his elder daughter as the patron, the Mountbatten Institute was developed to allow young adults the opportunity to enhance their intercultural appreciation and experience by spending time abroad.[193] The IET annually awards the Mountbatten Medal for an outstanding contribution, or contributions over a period, to the promotion of electronics or information technology and their application.[20]

Canada's capital city of Ottawa named Mountbatten Avenue in his memory.[194] Java Street in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was renamed Jalan Mountbatten after the Second World War;[195][196] it was renamed again to Jalan Tun Perak in 1981. The Mountbatten estate and Mountbatten MRT station in Singapore were named after him.[197]

Mountbatten's personal papers (containing approximately 250,000 papers and 50,000 photographs) are preserved in the University of Southampton Library.[198]

## Awards and decorations

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Main article: List of titles and honours of Lord Mountbatten

Country  | Date  | Appointment  | Ribbon  | Post-nominal

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United Kingdom | 1911  | King George V Coronation Medal |  |
1918  | British War Medal |
Victory Medal |
1920  | Member of the Royal Victorian Order |  | MVO  | Promoted to KCVO in 1922[199]
1922  | Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order | KCVO  | Promoted to GCVO in 1937[200]
Kingdom of Spain | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Isabella the Catholic |  | gcYC  | [201]
Kingdom of Egypt | Order of the Nile, Fourth Class |  |
Romania | 1924  | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Crown |
United Kingdom | 1929  | Commander of the Order of St John |  |  | Promoted to KStJ in 1940[202]
1935  | King George V Silver Jubilee Medal |  |
1937  | King George VI Coronation Medal |
Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order |  | GCVO  | [203]
Romania | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Star of Romania |  |  | [201]
United Kingdom | 1940  | Knight of Justice of the Order of St John |  |  | [204]
1941  | Companion of the Distinguished Service Order |  | DSO  | [36]
Kingdom of Greece | War Cross |  |  | [205]
United Kingdom | 1943  | Companion of the Order of the Bath |  | CB  | Promoted to KCB in 1945
United States | Chief Commander of the Legion of Merit |  |  | [206]
United Kingdom | 1945  | Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath |  | KCB  | Promoted to GCB in 1955[207]
1939–45 Star |  |  |
Atlantic Star |
Africa Star |
Burma Star |
Italy Star |
Defence Medal |
War Medal 1939–1945 |
Republic of China | Special Grand Cordon of the Order of the Cloud and Banner |  | [208]
United States | Distinguished Service Medal |  | [209]
Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal |

United Kingdom | 1946  | Knight Companion of the Order of the Garter |  | KG  | [210]
Kingdom of Greece | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of George I |  |  | [211]
Kingdom of Thailand | 21 January 1946  | Knight Grand Cordon of the Order of the White Elephant |  | PCh (KCE)  | [212][213]
Kingdom of Nepal | 10 May 1946  | Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of Nepal |  |  | [212][214]
France | 3 June 1946  | Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour |  | [212][215]
1939–1945 War Cross |  | [215]
India | 1947  | Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India |  | GCSI  | [216][n 2]
Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire |  | GCIE  | [217][n 2]
1948  | Indian Independence Medal |  |  |
Kingdom of the Netherlands | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion |  | [218]
Portuguese Republic | 1951  | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Aviz |  | GCA  | [201]
United Kingdom | 1952  | Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal |  |  |
Kingdom of Sweden | Knight of the Royal Order of the Seraphim |  | RSerafO
United Kingdom | 1955  | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath |  | GCB  | [219]
Union of Burma | 1956  | Grand Commander of the Order of Thiri Thudhamma |  |  | [206]
Kingdom of Denmark | 1962  | Grand Cross of the Order of the Dannebrog |  | [201]
United Kingdom | 1965  | Member of the Order of Merit |  | OM  | Military Division[220]
Ethiopian Empire | Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Seal of Solomon |  | S.K.  | [201]
Maldives  | 1972  | Order of the Distinguished Rule of Izzuddin |  |  | [221]
Kingdom of Nepal | 24 February 1975  | King Birendra Coronation Medal  |  | [222]
United Kingdom | 1977  | Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal |  |
| Naval General Service Medal |

He was appointed personal aide-de-camp by Edward VIII, George VI[223] and Elizabeth II, and therefore bore the unusual distinction of being allowed to wear three royal cyphers on his epaulettes.[224][225]

## Arms

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Coat of arms of Lord Mountbatten  |

Notes
The arms of the Earl Mountbatten of Burma consist of:
Crest
Crests of Hesse modified and Battenberg.
Helm
Helms of Hesse modified and Battenberg.
Escutcheon
Within the Garter, Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Hesse with a bordure compony argent and gules; 2nd and 3rd, Battenberg; charged at the honour point with an inescutcheon of the British Royal arms with a label of three points argent, the centre point charged with a rose gules and each of the others with an ermine spot sable (Princess Alice, his grandmother).[226]
Supporters
Two Lions queue fourchée and crowned all or.
Motto
In honour bound
Orders
The Order of the Garter ribbon.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
(Shame be to him who thinks evil of it)

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## Ancestry

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Ancestors of Lord Mountbatten

|  |  |  |  |  |  |  | 8\. Louis II, Grand Duke of Hesse[229]

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| 4\. Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine[227]|

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| 9\. Princess Wilhelmine of Baden[229]

| 2\. Prince Louis of Battenberg|

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| 10\. Count John Maurice Hauke[230]

| 5\. Julia, Princess of Battenberg[227]|

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| 11\. Sophie Lafontaine[230]

| 1\. Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma|
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| 12\. Prince Charles of Hesse and by Rhine[231]

| 6\. Louis IV, Grand Duke of Hesse[228]|

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| 13\. Princess Elisabeth of Prussia[231]

| 3\. Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine|

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| 14\. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha[228]

| 7\. Princess Alice of the United Kingdom[228]|

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1. ^ 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.
2. ^ a b As Viceroy and Governor-General of India, who was the ex officio Grand Master of the order.

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## Further reading

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* Ankit, Rakesh (2021). "Mountbatten and India, 1964-79: after Nehru". Contemporary British History. 35 (4): 569–596\. doi:10.1080/13619462.2021.1944113. ISSN 1361-9462. S2CID 237793636.
* Coll, Rebecca (2017). "Autobiography and history on screen: The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 37 (4): 665–682\. doi:10.1080/01439685.2016.1187847. ISSN 0143-9685. S2CID 159708448. Archived from the original on 29 November 2022. Retrieved 18 September 2022.
* Copland, Ian (1993). "Lord Mountbatten and the integration of the Indian states: A reappraisal". Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History. 21 (2): 385–408\. doi:10.1080/03086539308582896. ISSN 0308-6534.
* Grove, Eric; Rohan, Sally Rohan (1999). "The Limits of Opposition: Admiral Earl Mountbatten of Burma, First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff". Contemporary British History. 13 (2): 98–116\. doi:10.1080/13619469908581531. ISSN 1361-9462.
* Hough, Richard (1980). Mountbatten: Hero of Our Time. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. ISBN 978-0-297-77805-9.
* Knatchbull, Timothy (2010). From a Clear Blue Sky. London: Arrow. ISBN 978-0-09-954358-9.
* Leigh, David (1988). The Wilson Plot: The Intelligence Services and the Discrediting of a Prime Minister 1945–1976. London: Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-434-41340-9.
* McLynn, Frank (2011). The Burma Campaign: Disaster into Triumph, 1942–1945. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-17836-4.
* Moore, R. J. (1981). "Mountbatten, India, and the Commonwealth". Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics. 19 (1): 5–43\. doi:10.1080/14662048108447372. ISSN 0306-3631.
* Murfett, Malcolm (1995). The First Sea Lords from Fisher to Mountbatten. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-94231-1.
* Neillands, Robin (2005). The Dieppe Raid: the story of the disastrous 1942 expedition. Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-34781-7.
* Nordenvall, Per (1998). Kungl. Serafimerorden 1748–1998 [The Royal Order of the Seraphim 1748–1998] (in Swedish). Stockholm: Kungl. Maj:ts orden. ISBN 978-91-630-6744-0.
* Ritter, Jonathan Templin (2017). Stilwell and Mountbatten in Burma: Allies at War, 1943–1944. Denton, Texas: University of North Texas Press. ISBN 978-1-57441-674-9.
* Roberts, Andrew (2004). Eminent Churchillians. London: Phoenix. ISBN 978-1-85799-213-7.
* Smith, Adrian (1991). "Command and Control in Postwar Britain Defence Decision-making in the United Kingdom, 1945-1984". Twentieth Century British History. 2 (3): 291–327\. doi:10.1093/tcbh/2.3.291.
* ——— (August 2006). "Mountbatten goes to the movies: Promoting the heroic myth through cinema". Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television. 26 (3): 395–416\. doi:10.1080/01439680600799421. S2CID 191491309.
* Terraine, John (1968). The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 978-0-09-088810-8.
* Villa, Brian Loring; Henshaw, Peter J. (June 1998). "The Dieppe Raid Debate". Canadian Historical Review. 79 (2): 304–315\. ISSN 0008-3755.
* Wheen, Francis (2001). Tom Driberg: The Soul of Indiscretion. London: Fourth Estate. ISBN 978-1-84115-575-3.
* Ziegler, Philip, ed. (1987). The Diaries of Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1920-1922: Tours with the Prince of Wales. London: Collins. ISBN 0-00-217608-4.

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Independence|

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Battenberg/Mountbatten family

Generations are numbered by their descent from Prince Alexander of Hesse and by Rhine and Julia, Princess of Battenberg

1st generation|

* Marie, Princess of Erbach-Schönberg
* Louis Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Milford Haven
* Alexander I, Prince of Bulgaria
* Prince Henry
* Prince Francis Joseph

2nd generation|

* Alice, Princess Andrew of Greece and Denmark
* Louise, Queen of Sweden
* George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven
* Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma
* Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke
* Victoria Eugenie, Queen of Spain
* Lord Leopold Mountbatten
* Prince Maurice

3rd generation|

* Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh*
* David Mountbatten, 3rd Marquess of Milford Haven
* Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma
* Lady Pamela Hicks
* Lady Iris Kemp

4th generation|

* George Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford Haven
* Lord Ivar Mountbatten

5th generation|

* Lady Tatiana Dru
* Henry Mountbatten, Earl of Medina

*Not Mountbatten or Battenberg by birth. Adopted the surname Mountbatten from his maternal line on abandoning his patrilineal Greek and Danish princely titles.

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Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 1966

Fellows|

* Alan R. Battersby
* Brooke Benjamin
* Kenneth Budden
* Robert Ernest Davies
* Richard Doll
* Sam Edwards
* John Samuel Forrest
* Francis Charles Fraser
* Harry Harris
* Donald O. Hebb
* Kenneth Hutchison
* Alick Isaacs
* Basil Kassanis
* Ralph Kekwick
* Percy Edward Kent
* Desmond King-Hele
* Francis Knowles
* Georg Kreisel
* Cyril Lucas
* James Dwyer McGee
* James Menter
* Arthur Mourant
* Egon Pearson
* Donald Hill Perkins
* Mary Pickford
* Heinz Otto Schild
* Herbert Muggleton Stanley
* Bruce Stocker
* John Sutton
* Michael Szwarc
* David Whiffen
* Fred White

Statute 12|

* Louis Mountbatten

Foreign|

* Jean Brachet
* Haldan Keffer Hartline
* Louis Néel
* André Weil

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Chair of the NATO Military Committee

* 1949–1951  Omar Bradley
* 1951–1952  Etienne Baele
* 1952–1953  Charles Foulkes
* 1953–1954  E. J. C. Quistgaard
* 1954–1955  Augustin Guillaume
* 1955–1956  Stylianos Pallis
* 1956–1957  Giuseppe Mancinelli
* 1957–1958  B. R. P. F. Hasselman
* 1958–1959  Bjarne Øen
* 1959–1960  J. A. Beleza Ferraz
* 1960–1960 Rüştü Erdelhun
* 1960–1961  Louis Mountbatten
* 1961–1962  Lyman Lemnitzer
* 1962–1963  C. P. de Cumont
* 1963–1964  Adolf Heusinger
* 1964–1968  C. P. de Cumont
* 1968–1971  Nigel Henderson
* 1971–1974  Johannes Steinhoff
* 1974–1977  Peter Hill-Norton
* 1977–1980  H. F. Zeiner-Gundersen
* 1980–1983  Robert Hilborn Falls
* 1983–1986  Cornelis de Jager
* 1986–1989  Wolfgang Altenburg
* 1989–1993  Vigleik Eide
* 1993–1996  Richard Vincent
* 1996–1999  Klaus Naumann
* 1999–2002  Guido Venturoni
* 2002–2005  Harald Kujat
* 2005–2008  Ray Henault
* 2008–2011  Giampaolo Di Paola
* 2011–2015  Knud Bartels
* 2015–2018  Petr Pavel
* 2018–2021  Stuart Peach
* 2021–2023 Rob Bauer

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Provisional Irish Republican Army

General|

* Anti-Treaty IRA
* Sinn Féin
* Republican News
* An Phoblacht
* The Green Book
* The Troubles (Timeline)
* Haughey arms crisis
* IRA campaign
* Chronology of Provisional IRA actions
* Arms importation
* Weaponry
* Barrack buster
* Improvised tactical vehicles
* Mountjoy Prison helicopter escape
* Blanket protest
* Dirty protest
* HM Prison Maze
* Anti H-Block
* 1981 Irish hunger strike
* Maze Prison escape
* Armalite and ballot box strategy
* Punishment attacks
* Disappeared
* Smithwick Tribunal
* Northern Ireland peace process
* Good Friday Agreement

Organisation|

* Chief of Staff
* IRA Army Council
* IRA Northern Command
* IRA Southern Command
* Internal Security Unit
* Active service unit
* Belfast Brigade
* Derry Brigade
* South Armagh Brigade
* East Tyrone Brigade
* Balcombe Street Gang

Actions|

| 1970–1979|

* Battle of St Matthew's
* Falls Curfew
* 1970 Crossmaglen bombing
* Scottish soldiers' killings
* Red Lion bombing
* Balmoral showroom bombing
* Abercorn bombing
* Donegall Street bombing
* Battle at Springmartin
* Battle of Lenadoon
* Bloody Friday
* Claudy bombing
* Newry customs bombing
* Old Bailey bombing
* Honey Trap killings
* King's Cross & Euston bombings
* Coleraine bombings
* 1973 Westminster bombing
* M62 bombing
* Clogher attack
* Houses of Parliament bombing
* Tower of London bombing
* Guildford pub bombings
* Harrow School bombing
* Brooks's Club bombing
* Woolwich pub bombing
* British Airways bombing attempt
* Birmingham pub bombings
* London pillar box bombings
* Talbot Arms bombing
* Bristol bombing
* Telephone exchange bombings
* 1974 Oxford Street bombing
* Carlton Tower & Portman Hotel shootings
* Mountainview attack
* Bayardo Bar attack
* Forkhill attack
* Caterham Arms bombing
* Tullyvallen massacre
* London Hilton bombing
* Piccadilly bombing
* Trattoria Fiore bombing
* Scott's Oyster Bar bombing
* Walton's Restaurant bombing
* Drummuckavall ambush
* Balcombe Street siege
* Kingsmill massacre
* West Ham station attack
* Olympia bombing
* Store bar shooting
* Stag Inn attack
* Garryhinch ambush
* Jonesborough Gazelle downing
* La Mon restaurant bombing
* Crossmaglen ambush
* Warrenpoint ambush
* Brussels bombing
* Dungannon attack

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1980–1989|

* Dunmurry train bombing
* Lough Foyle attacks
* Glasdrumman ambush
* 1981 Bessbrook attack
* Chelsea Barracks bombing
* Hyde Park & Regent's Park bombings
* Harrods bombing
* Royal Artillery Barracks bombing
* Brighton hotel bombing
* Ballygawley land mine attack
* Newry mortar attack
* Ballygawley attack
* Enniskillen mortar attack
* RUC Birches barracks attack
* Rheindahlen bombing
* Loughgall ambush
* Operation Flavius
* Corporals killings
* Lisburn bombing
* Aughanduff Lynx shootdown
* 1988 Netherlands attacks
* Glamorgan barracks bombing
* Inglis Barracks bombing
* Ballygawley bus bombing
* Jonesborough ambush
* Clive Barracks bombing
* Deal barracks bombing
* Mayobridge attack
* Derryard attack

1990–1991|

* Derrygorry Gazelle downing
* South Armagh sniper
* Downpatrick roadside bomb
* Operation Conservation
* 1990 Wembley bombing
* Carlton Club bombing
* London Stock Exchange bombing
* Honourable Artillery Company bombing
* Lichfield gun attack
* RFA Fort Victoria bombing
* Proxy bombings
* Downing Street mortar attack
* Paddington & Victoria station bombings
* Mullacreevie ambush
* Glenanne barracks bombing
* Coagh ambush
* Musgrave Park Hospital bombing
* Crumlin Road Prison bombing

1992–1997|

* Teebane bombing
* Clonoe ambush
* London Bridge bombing
* Staples Cnr bombing
* Baltic Exchange bombing
* Sussex Arms bombing
* Cloghoge attack
* Coalisland riots
* Forensic Science Laboratory bombing
* Stoke Newington Road bomb
* 1992 Manchester bombing
* Night of the Long Knives
* 1993 Harrods bombing
* Warrington bombings
* Cullaville occupation
* Camden bombing
* Bishopsgate bombing
* Finchley Road bombings
* Battle of Newry Road
* Shankill Road bombing
* 1993 Fivemiletown ambush
* Heathrow attacks
* Crossmaglen Lynx downing
* Drumcree conflict
* Docklands bombing
* Aldwych bus bombing
* 1996 Manchester bombing
* Hammersmith Bridge bombing
* Osnabrück mortar attack
* Thiepval barracks bombing
* Coalisland attack
* 1997 Northern Ireland riots

Personalities
(Volunteers)|

* Paddy Agnew
* Martina Anderson
* Declan Arthurs
* Thomas Begley
* Ivor Bell
* Patricia Black
* Charles Breslin
* Edward Butler
* Paul Butler
* Joe Cahill
* Liam Campbell
* Fergal Caraher
* Malachy Carey
* Owen Carron
* Gerard Casey
* Carál Ní Chuilín
* Gabriel Cleary
* Peter Cleary
* Kevin Coen
* Eamon Collins
* Eddie Copeland
* Marion Coyle
* Gerard Davison
* Matt Devlin
* Hugh Doherty
* Joe Doherty
* Kieran Doherty
* Martin Doherty
* Pat Doherty
* Colin Duffy
* Rose Dugdale
* Dessie Ellis
* Mairéad Farrell
* William Fleming
* Kieran Fleming
* Bernard Fox
* Angelo Fusco
* Michael Gaughan
* John Francis Green
* Dessie Grew
* George Harrison
* Brendan Hughes
* Francis Hughes
* Martin Hurson
* Pearse Jordan
* Brian Keenan
* Gerry Kelly
* John Kelly
* Patrick Joseph Kelly
* Sean Kelly
* Jim Lynagh
* Proinsias Mac Airt
* Breandán Mac Cionnaith
* Antoine Mac Giolla Bhrighde
* Joseph MacManus
* Seán Mac Stíofáin
* Patrick Magee
* Paul Magee
* Donna Maguire
* Larry Marley
* Paul Marlowe
* Leo Martin
* Alex Maskey
* Pearse McAuley
* Daniel McCann
* Fra McCann
* Jennifer McCann
* Raymond McCartney
* Martin McCaughey
* Raymond McCreesh
* Joe McDonnell
* Séamus McElwaine
* Thomas McElwee
* Brendan McFarlane
* Tom McFeely
* Gerry McGeough
* Pat McGeown
* John Joe McGirl
* Martin McGuinness
* Pádraig McKearney
* Tommy McKearney
* Billy McKee
* Kevin McKenna
* Laurence McKeown
* Michael McKevitt
* Thomas McMahon
* Jackie McMullan
* Martin Meehan
* Ian Milne
* Arthur Morgan
* Danny Morrison
* Conor Murphy
* Thomas "Slab" Murphy
* Kieran Nugent
* Ruairí Ó Brádaigh
* Ed O'Brien
* Dáithí Ó Conaill
* Éamonn O'Doherty
* Joe B. O'Hagan
* Siobhán O'Hanlon
* Rita O'Hare
* Diarmuid O'Neill
* Dolours Price
* Marian Price
* Liam Quinn
* Paddy Quinn
* Billy Reid
* Bobby Sands
* Seán Savage
* Pat Sheehan
* Frank Stagg
* Jimmy Steele
* Bobby Storey
* Gerard Tuite
* Seamus Twomey
* Roy Walsh
* Séanna Walsh

Espionage and
Supergrasses|

* Eamon Collins
* Denis Donaldson
* Joseph Fenton
* Kevin Fulton
* Raymond Gilmour
* Martin McGartland
* Sean O'Callaghan
* Freddie Scappaticci (allegedly "Stakeknife")

Associates|

* Cumann na mBan
* Fianna Éireann
* South Armagh Republican Action Force
* Direct Action Against Drugs
* NORAID
* Clan na Gael
* Troops Out Movement

Derivatives|

* Continuity Irish Republican Army
* Real Irish Republican Army

Prominent
killings|

* Jeffery Stanford Agate
* Johnathan Ball
* Anthony Berry
* Robert Bradford
* Joe Bratty
* Matthew Burns
* Martin Cahill
* Eamon Collins
* Raymond Elder
* Gerard Evans
* Christopher Ewart-Biggs
* Joseph Fenton
* Billy Fox
* Maurice Gibson
* Ian Gow
* Heidi Hazell
* Donald Kaberry
* Andrew Kearney
* Baroness Brabourne
* William "Frenchie" Marchant
* Martin McBirney
* Jerry McCabe
* Robert McConnell
* Jean McConville
* Columba McVeigh
* Ross McWhirter
* Stephen Melrose
* Lord Mountbatten
* Lenny Murphy
* Robert Nairac
* Thomas Oliver
* Tim Parry
* Paul Quinn
* Robert Seymour
* Robert McCartney (allegedly)
* Joseph Rafferty (allegedly)
* Ray Smallwoods
* Sammy Smyth
* Nick Spanos
* James Stronge
* Norman Stronge
* Richard Sykes
* Stephen Tibble
* Sammy Ward
* Michael Willetts

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* FAST
* WorldCat

National|

* Germany
* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Australia
* Netherlands
* Norway
* Sweden
* Poland
* Vatican
* Israel
* Catalonia
* Belgium

Academics|

* CiNii

People|

* Trove
* Deutsche Biographie
* DDB

Other|

* IdRef
* NARA

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