Admiral of the Fleet, Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, was a British naval officer and statesman, an uncle of Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh and second cousin once removed of Queen Elizabeth II.
During the Second World War he was Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command (1943-46)
He was the last Viceroy of India (1947) and the first Governor General of independent India (1947/48)
From 1954 to 1959 he was First Sea Lord and thereafter Chief of Defence Staff until 1965.
In 1979, Mountbatten, his grandson Nicholas and two others were killed by the Provisional Irish Republican Army which had placed a bomb in his fishing boat in County Sligo, Ireland.
An original letter on Fourth Sea Lord letterhead dated 21 December, 1950 to a Miss D.H. Taylor wishing her good fortune in her future employment and signed 'Yours sincerely, Mountbatten of Burma'
