General Sir Alexander Frank Philip Christison, 4th Baronet, was a British Army officer who served with distinction during the world wars. After service as a junior officer on the Western Front in the First World War, he later distinguished himself during the Second World War, where he commanded XV Indian Corps, part of Sir William Slim's Fourteenth Army, during the Burma campaign. He then went on to have a successful postwar career, and lived to the age of 100.
Plaque to General Sir Philip Christison, St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh.
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim,, usually known as Bill Slim, was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia.
Slim c. 1950
Field Marshal Sir William Slim, General Officer Commanding Fourteenth Army in Burma, 5 March 1945.
Portrait of General Slim as commander of the Fourteenth Army, commissioned by the Ministry of Information.
Lieutenant General Sir William Slim being knighted by the Viceroy of India, Field Marshal the Viscount Wavell, near Imphal, December 1944.