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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.
Mark William Rawdon Slim, 3rd Viscount Slim (born 13 February 1960), is the son of the 2nd Viscount and his wife Elisabeth Joan Spinney. [ 2] He was educated at Eton College and the University of Bristol and in 2003 was using an address at 15 Basinghall Street in the City of London. [ 2] He is a chartered surveyor working in the commercial ...
978-0-330-50997-8. Defeat into Victory is an account of the retaking of Burma by Allied forces during the Second World War by the British Field Marshal William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, and published in the UK by Cassell in 1956. It was published in the United States as Defeat into Victory: Battling Japan in Burma and India, 1942–1945 by David ...
Ronald Jay " Slim " Williams (born November 11, 1964) [1] [2] [3] is an American entrepreneur and record executive who co-founded the record label Cash Money Records in 1991, along with his younger brother, rapper Bryan "Birdman" Williams. [4] He has served as executive producer for most of the label's major releases since 1997.
The statue of William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim in Whitehall, London, is a work of 1988–1993 by the sculptor Ivor Roberts-Jones.It is one of three memorials to British military leaders of World War II on Raleigh Green, outside the Ministry of Defence's Main Building, the others being Oscar Nemon's 1980 statue of Lord Montgomery and Roberts-Jones's statue of Lord Alanbrooke, erected later in 1993.
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William Slim, Defeat into Victory, London: Cassell, 1956. Julian Thompson, The Imperial War Museum Book of the War in Burma 1942–1945 , London: Pan Macmillan, 2003. James Howard Williams ( Elephant Bill ), was Elephant Advisor to the Fourteenth Army, see his Elephant Bill (1950) and Bandoola (1953)
Burma campaign (1944–1945) Two British soldiers patrol the ruins of Bahe in Federated Shan States, Central Burma, January 1945. The Burma campaign in the South-East Asian Theatre of World War II was fought primarily by British Commonwealth, Chinese and United States forces [3] against the forces of Imperial Japan, who were assisted by the ...