Equestrian Colonelcy For Mountbatten
(Special Crspdl. N.Z.P.A.) LONDON, February 4. Admiral of the Fleet Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Chief of the Defence Staffs, has become
a colonel. He is to succeed Field Marshal Lord Harding as Colonel of the Life Guards. The election of an Admiral of the Fleet to this post is unprecedented. The appointment to the Queen’s, but it recto almost solely on the recommendation of the commanding officer of the regiment Lord Mountbatten to not a stranger to the Life Guards. In the autumn of 1921 he served on a month’s attachment to the 2nd Life Guards, and took a course in military equitation. He to one of the long-est-serving of all officers on the active list He
became a midshipman in 1916 and served in H.M.S. Lion in that year. His nephew, the Duke of Edinburgh, a naval officer, is Colonel of the Welsh Guards.
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Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30667, 5 February 1965, Page 11
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