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spidge · 16-10-2007, 01:58 AM

One of my favourite Generals!

http://www.generals.dk/general/Slim/...t_Britain.html

Slim

William Joseph Viscount, Field Marshal
(1891 – 1970) (Indian Army)

Nickname: Uncle Bill

1934 - 1936 Instructor at Staff College Camberley

Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion 7th Gurkha Rifles

1939 Commandant of Senior Officers' School, India

1939 - 1941 Commanding Officer 10th Indian Brigade, Eritrea

1941 Wounded

1941- 1942 General Officer Commanding 10th Indian Division, Syria

1942 General Officer Commanding BurCorps, Burma

1942 - 1943 General Officer Commanding XV Indian Corps, Burma

1943 Acting General Officer Commanding Eastern Army

1943 - 1945 General Officer Commanding 14th Army, Burma

1945 Commander in Chief Allied Land Forces South-East Asia

1946 - 1947 Commandant of Imperial Defence College

1948 Retired

1948 Recalled

1948 - 1952 Chief Imperial General Staff, War Office

1952 - 1960 Governor-General & Commander in Chief of Australia

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spidge Super Moderator Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Melbourne Australia Posts: 3,291 You're Top Poster: #3 Awards Showcase Total Awards: 6	Field Marshall William Joseph (Viscount) Slim (1891 - 1970) One of my favourite Generals! http://www.generals.dk/general/Slim/...t_Britain.html Slim William Joseph Viscount, Field Marshal (1891 – 1970) (Indian Army) Nickname: Uncle Bill 1934 - 1936 Instructor at Staff College Camberley Commanding Officer 2nd Battalion 7th Gurkha Rifles 1939 Commandant of Senior Officers' School, India 1939 - 1941 Commanding Officer 10th Indian Brigade, Eritrea 1941 Wounded 1941- 1942 General Officer Commanding 10th Indian Division, Syria 1942 General Officer Commanding BurCorps, Burma 1942 - 1943 General Officer Commanding XV Indian Corps, Burma 1943 Acting General Officer Commanding Eastern Army 1943 - 1945 General Officer Commanding 14th Army, Burma 1945 Commander in Chief Allied Land Forces South-East Asia 1946 - 1947 Commandant of Imperial Defence College 1948 Retired 1948 Recalled 1948 - 1952 Chief Imperial General Staff, War Office 1952 - 1960 Governor-General & Commander in Chief of Australia __________________ Spidge, ------------------------------------------------------- My Avatar is the memorial to the 22 Commonwealth Coastwatchers at the Temakin Cemetery on Betio (Tarawa Atoll) who were beheaded by the Japanese on 15th October 1942. http://www.dva.gov.au/media/publicat...mem_beito.html "You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war." (Winston Churchill made this prophetic pronouncement in a House of Commons speech in 1938, just after Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich agreement with Hitler. Chamberlain returned from Germany with the signed agreement in hand, proclaiming that "peace in our time" had been achieved. Churchill attacked Chamberlain's "politics of appeasement" in this and many other speeches.) What did the Australians do in ww2 and other conflicts? Check out this site: http://www.diggerhistory.info/00-pag...ster-index.htm