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Interwar career. Slim became battalion adjutant with the 6th Gurkha Rifles in 1921. [8] On 1 January 1926, he married Aileen Robertson, daughter of Rev John Anderson Robertson (d.1941) minister of Cramond near Edinburgh. [9][10] They had one son and one daughter. [8] . Later that year Slim was sent to the Staff College, Quetta.
He was survived by his wife of 44 years, their son John (1927-2019), who succeeded as the 2nd Viscount Slim, and daughter, Una Mary Rowcliffe (1930-). Viscount Slim is commemorated by a plaque in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, London, and by a statue at Whitehall, unveiled by Queen Elizabeth II in 1990.
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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The lower middle class boy, who had slipped into the commissioned ranks of the British Army in the emergency of 1914, and remained an officer in 1918 only by transferring to the less prestigious Indian Army, was Field Marshal Viscount Slim of Yarralumla and Bishopston, Knight of the Garter.
Interwar career. Slim became battalion adjutant with the 6th Gurkha Rifles in 1921. 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.
*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.
