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William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim

1891 - 1970

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Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim (6 August 1891 – 14 December 1970), usually known as Bill Slim, 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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim is the 1,634th most popular military personnel (up from 1,658th in 2019), the 3,277th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,975th in 2019) and the 81st most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim ranks 1,634 out of 2,058. Before him are Itō Sukeyuki, Koos de la Rey, Nikolaos Trikoupis, Filipp Oktyabrsky, Juan Martín Díez, and Yevfimiy Putyatin. After him are François de Créquy, Flora Sandes, Erick-Oskar Hansen, Hans-Diedrich von Tiesenhausen, Kiyotake Kawaguchi, and Theodor Tolsdorff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim ranks 191. Before him are William F. Albright, Ferdinand Bruckner, Alfred Sturtevant, André Labatut, Adolf Busch, and Philipp Etter. After him are Harald Öhquist, Oreste Puliti, Zoltán Mechlovits, Franz Babinger, Mary Browne, and Alexander Gorbatov. Among people deceased in 1970, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim ranks 172. Before him are Ralph Hartley, Adolf Wiklund, Alfred Sturtevant, Jérôme Carcopino, Alfréd Rényi, and Parashqevi Qiriazi. After him are Johnny Hodges, Alice Hamilton, Nathan Altman, Anna Louise Strong, Marcel Minnaert, and Karel Pešek.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim ranks 3,278 out of 8,785. Before him are William Sterndale Bennett (1816), Norman Read (1931), John Peel (1939), Richard Neville, 5th Earl of Salisbury (1400), John D. Barrow (1952), and Thomas Stanley, 1st Earl of Derby (1435). After him are Vivian Fuchs (1908), Flora Sandes (1876), James Sowerby (1757), Harry Gregson-Williams (1961), John Bradley (1988), and Harry Edwin Wood (1881).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim ranks 81. Before him are Edward Braddock (1695), Andrew Scott Waugh (1810), Sidney Smith (1764), Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436), James Somerville (1882), and Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724). After him are Flora Sandes (1876), Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772), Thomas Gage (1719), Charles Warren (1840), George Anson, 1st Baron Anson (1697), and Gregor MacGregor (1786).

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