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Slim saw active service in both the First and Second World Wars and was wounded in action three times. During the Second World War he led the Fourteenth Army, the so-called "forgotten army" in the Burma campaign. After the war he became the first British officer who had served in the Indian Army to be appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff.
Feb 17, 2017 · He became a teacher and then a clerk before entering the army at the start of the First World War. As a second lieutenant and lieutenant, Slim served at Gallipoli and in the Middle East. He was severely injured in action and awarded the Military Cross.
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim of Yarralumla and Bishopston was a British field marshal and chief of the Imperial General Staff who turned back an attempted Japanese invasion of India and defeated the Japanese armies in Burma (Myanmar) during World War II.
Apr 20, 2015 · Between 1934 and 1937 he taught at the Staff College in Camberley. In 1938, promoted to lieutenant colonel, Slim was given command of the 2 nd Battalion, 7 th Ghurkha Rifles. When World War Two started in September 1939, Slim was given command of the Indian 10 th Brigade.
Jan 21, 2006 · By April 5 the Japanese had cut the Imphal-Kohima road and isolated the settlements. Slim ordered his subordinate commanders not to withdraw without permission from higher authority.
General William Slim, architect of the 14th Army victory in Burma, inflicted the greatest land defeat on the Japanese in all of World War II. Nevertheless, Slim, pictured in 1945, was one of the unsung heroes of the war, his skill and command presence largely overshadowed by others in the upper echelons of the British Army.
On the outbreak of the Second World War, Slim was given command of the 10th Indian Infantry Brigade of the 5th Indian Infantry Division and was sent to Sudan. He took part in the East African campaign to liberate Ethiopia from the Italians. Slim was wounded again during the fighting in Eritrea.
