The City Of Ottawa erected Mountbatten Avenue in memory of Admiral of the Fleet Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, KG, GCB, OM, GCSI, GCIE, GCVO, DSO, PC, FRS. Mountbatten was a British naval officer, who served in the Royal Navy as a midshipman during the First World War. He pursued his military career and education after the First World War and when war broke out in 1939, Mountbatten was appointed commander of the 5th Destroyer Flotilla.
In October 1941 Mountbatten became Chief of Combined Operations responsible for planning commando raids across the English Channel. He was, in large part, responsible for the planning and organization of the Raid at St. Nazaire in mid 1942 and pushed through the Dieppe Raid of August 1942. In October 1943, Mountbatten was appointed Supreme Allied Commander South East Asia Command (SEAC), a post he would hold until SEAC was disbanded in 1946. During this time, his command oversaw the recapture of Burma from the Japanese by General William Slim.
A Royal Canadian Sea Cadet corps (RCSCC #134 Admiral Mountbatten in Sudbury, Ontario) was named after him in 1946.
