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- William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim of Yarralumla and Bishopston (born Aug. 6, 1891, Bristol, Gloucestershire, Eng.—died Dec. 14, 1970, London) 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.
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William Slim was born at 72 Belmont Road, St Andrews, Bristol, the son of John Slim by his marriage to Charlotte Tucker, and was baptised there at St Bonaventure's Roman Catholic church, Bishopston.
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.
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Slim was, first and foremost, a born leader of soldiers. It would be inconceivable to think of Monty as ‘Uncle Bernard’, but it was to ‘Uncle Bill’ that soldiers in Burma, from the dark days of 1942 and 1943, through to the great victories over the Japanese in 1944 and 1945, put their confidence and trust.
As a young officer he had augmented his meagre salary by writing short stories for Blackwoods magazine under the pseudonym of ‘John Mills’. In 1959 he published his second book, Unofficial History , which bears out in full Masters’ description of Slim as a superb writer.
Dec 14, 2020 · Fifty years ago today, a very great general died – Field Marshal Lord (William) Slim, known to the troops as “Uncle Bill”. His statue stands in Whitehall outside the Ministry of Defence...
Jun 27, 2018 · Slim, William, 1st Viscount Slim (1891–1970). Soldier. Born in Bristol and brought up in Birmingham, Slim joined the army in 1914, emerging twice wounded from the war with the rank of major. He spent most of the inter-war years with the army in India and in 1940 was sent with a brigade to Eritrea to fight the Italians.
Slim (1891-1970) was born into a thoroughly middle-class family. His father’s failure as a wholesale ironmonger meant that only William’s elder brother could afford to go to college, and young William ended up teaching in a primary school and working as a clerk at a metal-tube manufacturer.
