Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas Mountbatten was a British naval officer, colonial administrator, and relative of the British royal family who was born on June 25, 1900. Mountbatten was born in England to the renowned Battenberg family and was the maternal uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, and a second cousin of King George VI. He joined the Royal Navy during WWI and was named Supreme Allied Commander, South East Asia Command, during WWII. He was the last British individual to occupy the roles of viceroy of British India and first governor-general of the Dominion of India. Mountbatten attended Osborne Royal Naval College before joining the Royal Navy in 1916. He served in the last stages of World War I and temporarily attended Christ's College, Cambridge, following the war. Mountbatten continued to pursue his naval career throughout the interwar era, specializing in naval communications. Mountbatten was appointed Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command in August 1943 and led the recovery of Burma and Singapore from the Japanese by the end of 1945. Mountbatten was appointed viscount in 1946 and earl the following year for his wartime service. Mountbatten's driver in Malta in 1948, Ron Perks, claimed to have visited the Red House, an expensive homosexual brothel in Rabat frequented by naval personnel.
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