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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. Joining the British army as a private at.
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Robert Lyman is the author of the acclaimed A War of Empires: Japan, India, Burma and Britain 1941-1945. Historical Heroes: Bill Slim by Robert Lyman. Some talk of Wellington and Marlborough as Britain’s greatest general, but Field Marshal William.
May 31, 2012 · Nancy Clayton was one of the magnificent band of women who sustained Lieutenant General (later Field Marshal Viscount) William Slim's Fourteenth Army from front-line mobile canteens during the...
On 1 January 1926, he married Aileen Robertson, daughter of Rev John Anderson Robertson (d.1941) minister of Cramond near Edinburgh. They had one son and one daughter. Later that year Slim was sent to the Staff College, Quetta. On 5 June 1929, he was appointed a General Staff Officer, Second Grade.
A formidable character who could speak a variety of Indian languages, his crushing defeat of the Japanese ensured his reputation. He was later Chief of the Imperial General Staff (1948–52), and Governor-General of Australia (1953–60). From: Slim, William Joseph, 1st Viscount in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History ».
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The statue of William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim in Whitehall, London, is a work of 1988–1993 by the sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones.
