Mount Batten Burma (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. The collection consists of; A Signed Letter from Mount Batten to his solicitor Mr. Brown in Sligo Town in 1961 and 2 cheques signed Mountbatten of Burma in 1960.Ther is also a1960 edition of Picture with a feature on mountbatten titled Mountbatten The Lonely Man. Bills from a number of suppliers in County Sligo include ones from John Timoney General Grocer and M McGowan a grocer, Draper and Provision Merchant both of Cliffoney, Hazelwood Gardens, Joe Dunleavy Michael Flood Ballyshannon Motor Engineers, Michael Boyle Carpenter and Building contractor Harper and Campbell Coal Suppliers, James Dundas Plumbing and Heating, Barton Smith, Michael O'Boyle and others; Electricity Bills from the ESB in Dublin regarding electricity repair and, installation, supply & material. Addressed to Countess Mountbatten and Lord Mount Batten & others. Correspondence includes letters from Commander H.B. Webb Private Secretary's Office Broadlands Romsey, Hants re payments for works done to the white House & a request for receipted bill for the executors of Lady Mountbatten's estate. There is a typed page from Mountbatten's solicitor in Sligo laying out some issues a meeting that was due to take place 4th April 1961 betweenLord Mountbatten, Lady Brabourne, Mr. Carroll Auctioneer, Mr. Conlon forestry commissionerand Miss Gabrielle Gore Booth Forestry consultant to the estate. It outlines Mountbatten's concerns regarding reserving Sporting Rights in case of land that may be sold to the Forestry Commissioners as well as his views concerning tenants and lease of land to them.There is a signed letter from miss Gabriel Gore booth to solicitors Phibbs in Sligo regarding an offer of ?20 from a Henry Kennedy for Cartronplank Bog. There is also a certificate if Insurance insuring Admiral of the Fleet The Right Honourable Earl Mountbatten of Burma. Four other items include a card from solicitors re a compensation claim on the Estate of the admiral of the fleet There s also a number of items relating to the demobilisation of A Soldier Hildebrand Christopher Webb. Circa 60 items. Lord Mountbatten, a retired British statesman and cousin to Queen Elizabeth II, was assassinated on 27 August 1979 off the coast of Mullaghmore, Ireland. Thomas McMahon, an Irish republican and a volunteer for the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), planted a bomb on Mountbatten's boat, the cabin cruiser Shadow V, during Mountbatten's annual summer trip to Classiebawn Castle, his house on the Mullaghmore Peninsula.