ROYAL WEDDING
NAME OF BEST MAN ANNOUNCED
(Rec. 11 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 26. Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten’s best man at the Royal wedding on November 22 will be the Marquess of Milford Haven. The Marquess of Milford Haven is a nephew of Admiral Earl Mountbatten, who is heir to the title. He was born in 1919, and succeeded his father, the second Marquess, In 1938. , He was educated at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, and entered the Royal Navy in 1933. He served as a midshipman aboard H.M.S. London in 1937. From 1939 to 1941 he was a sub-lieutenant aboard H.M.S. Kandahar, and m 1942 served as a lieutenant in H.M.S. Bramham. In 1943. he took a signal course aboard H.M.S. Victory. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross in 1942, and was also made an officer of the Order of the British Empire.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25300, 27 September 1947, Page 9
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