Orange Order Parade in SCARBOROUGH 2010

This annual parade commemorates the life of Lord Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS, né Prince Louis of Battenberg (25 June 1900 27 August 1979) he was a British admiral and statesman of German descent, and an uncle of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. He was the last Viceroy of the British Indian Empire (1947) and the first Governor-General of the independent Union of India (194748), from which the modern Republic of India would emerge in 1950. From 1954 until 1959 he was the First Sea Lord, a position that had been held by his father, Prince Louis of Battenberg, some forty years earlier. In 1979 he was murdered by Irish Republican terrorists (IRA), who planted a bomb in his boat at Mullaghmore, County Sligo in the Republic of Ireland.