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 from 1953 to 1960.
Slim wearing the 14th Army badge
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.
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The Burma campaign was a series of battles fought in the British colony of Burma as part of the South-East Asian theatre of World War II. It primarily involved forces of the Allies against the invadin
William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
…Second World Wars and was wounded in action three times. During the Second World War he led the Fourteenth Army, the so-called "forgotten army" in the Burma campaign. After the war he became the first British officer who had served in the Indian Army to be appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff. In the early…
Sikh soldiers of the 7th Indian Infantry Division at an observation post in the Ngakyedauk Pass, February 1944
Indian troops move ammunition in very muddy conditions whilst on the road to Tamu, 1943.
Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Allied Commander, seen during his tour of the Arakan Front in February 1944
Lieutenant General Kawabe, commander of the Japanese Burma Area Army