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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. Slim saw active service in both the First and Second World Wars and was wounded in action three times.
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Reorganizing Slim’s Army
- Onwards to Victory
- Aftermath
- “The Road to Mandalay”
- The Author
Long the strategic reserve for the British Empire “east of Suez,” the Indian Army had had a disastrous opening to its war with Japan. Expanded much too rapidly, largely to meet imperial needs in the Middle East, it was badly mauled in Malaya and Burma. But in 1943 everything changed. Churchill reorganized the command structure for the war in Burma....
The campaign that carried Slim from the borders of Burma to Rangoon is considered by military historians the greatest feat of operational maneuver by a British general in the 20th century. Slim had said he wanted soldiers who could go anywhere and do anything. In the Fourteenth Army, that is what he had in 1944-45. Much of Slim’s logistics rested o...
As the British Raj in India reached its final days, Slim had two offers. Nehru wanted him to become the first commander-in-chief of independent India’s army,. Pakistan’s Jinnahoffered him the governorship of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). Seeing more politics than soldiering in both offers, Slim declined, and in April 1948 retired from the Indian ...
Click herefor a moving video of Charles Dance OBE, reading Kipling’s poem on VJ-Day +70, 2015. Though from a much earlier time, its verses are a tribute to all who fought in Slim’s Fourteenth Army, Indians, Africans, British.
Dr. Callahan is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Delaware and a leading scholar of the Indian Army in the two World Wars. He taught at the University for thirty-eight years and was director of the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program, where an annual student prize bears his name. In 2017 he published Triumph at Imphal-Kohima:...
Field Marshal Sir William Slim served in World War I and in the Indian army during the interwar period. As commander of the 1st Burma Corps (1942–1945) and supreme Allied commander of ground...
Rank: Temporary Brigadier. Unit: Headquarters, 10th Indian Infantry Division, British Indian Army. Awarded on: April 1st, 1941. Mentioned in Dispatches. Period: Second World War (1939-1945) Rank: Acting Major-General.
Slim airlifted two entire veteran divisions (5th and 7th Indian) from battle in the Arakan, straight into battle in the north. Desperate defensive actions were fought at places such as Imphal, Sangshak and Kohima, while the RAF and USAAF kept the forces supplied from the air.
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