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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.
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.
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim. Home » Articles » Bill Slim: a Master of both War and Words. In 1956 a military biography became a publishing sensation in the United Kingdom with the first edition of 20,000 selling out almost immediately. This was unusual, as only nine years after the war the public appetite for books on the recent war ...
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.
General William Slim, architect of the 14th Army victory in Burma, inflicted the greatest land defeat on the Japanese in all of World War II. Nevertheless, Slim, pictured in 1945, was one of the unsung heroes of the war, his skill and command presence largely overshadowed by others in the upper echelons of the British Army.
Slim, William Joseph, (1891-1970), 1st Viscount Slim, Field Marshal This page summarises records created by this Person The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s)...
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.
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