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- Slim was made acting lieutenant general on 8 May 1942.
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Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, PC (6 August 1891 – 14 December 1970), usually known as Bill Slim, [1] was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia.
Appointed commandant of the Imperial Defence College in 1946, Slim became chief of the Imperial General Staff in 1948 and was promoted to field marshal. He served as governor-general of Australia from 1953 to 1960, when he was created a viscount. His memoirs, Defeat into Victory, appeared in 1956.
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Mountbatten claimed that despite the reputation of others, such as the renowned self-publicist, Montgomery of Alamein, it was Slim who should rightly be regarded as the greatest British general of the Second World War.
Apr 20, 2015 · In January 1949, Slim was brought out of retirement and appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff with the rank of Field Marshal. He held this post until November 1952. In the following year, Slim was appointed Governor-General of Australia.
Slim was a popular choice for Governor-General since he was an authentic war hero who had fought alongside Australians at Gallipoli and in the Middle East. In 1954 he was able to welcome Queen Elizabeth II on the first visit by a reigning monarch to Australia.
One ominous day in mid-May 1942, Lt. Gen. William J. Slim stood on the Imphal Plain, high in the Assam hills of northeastern India, and watched columns of tattered, malaria-ridden British, Indian, and Burmese soldiers straggle across the frontier from Burma.
In 2011, Field Marshal Bill Slim tied with the Duke of Wellington as Britain’s greatest general in a public debate hosted by the National Army Museum.
