William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

August 6, 1891 – December 14, 1970

British field marshal who led the 14th Army in Burma in the Second World War and was Governor-General of Australia from 1953 to 1960.

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Offices held

Military service

• British Army
• British Indian Army

Affiliations

Education

• Command and Staff College Quetta

Timeline

1892

1898

1904

1910

1916

1922

1928

1934

1940

1946

1952

1958

1964

1970

 

William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

 

World War I

 

Mesopotamian campaign

 

Gallipoli campaign

 

East African campaign (World War II)

 

Anglo-Iraqi War

 

Syria–Lebanon campaign

 

Battle of Deir ez-Zor (1941)

 

Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran

 

Burma campaign

 

Battle of the Yunnan–Burma Road

 

Arakan campaign (1942–1943)

 

Operation U-Go

 

Battle of Imphal

 

Battle of Kohima

 

Burma campaign (1944–1945)

 

Burma campaign (1944)

 

Battle of Meiktila and Mandalay

 

Governor-General - Australia