He was wounded again in Eritrea. He then joined the staff of General Archibald Wavell in the Middle East Command. Promoted to Major-General, he commanded British forces in the Middle East Campaign commanding the Indian 10th Infantry Division in the Syria-Lebanon campaign and the invasion of Persia.
Burma campaign
In March , Slim was given command of BurCorps (consisting of the Indian 17th and Burmese 1st Division) in Burma, which was being attacked by the Japanese. Heavily outnumbered, he was soon forced to withdraw to India.
Having successfully brought the majority of his shattered command out of Burma, he took over XV Corps, which covered the coastal approaches from Burma to India, east of Chittagong. During this time he planned for a revolutionary new style of warfare—to negate the advantages the Japanese had in mobility on the offense and depth in defence. He also took to the task of training the rapidly-growing Eastern Army and restoring their confidence and abilities.
However, XV Corps was taken from him by Noel Irwin, the incompetent commander of Eastern Army. Slim had been planning for XV Corps' advance into the Arakan Peninsula for nearly a year. His plan involve
'Uncle Bill' - Field Marshal Bill Slim and his leadership legacy
Welcome to The Gurkha Museum’s latest Online Exhibition.
Field Marshal Viscount Slim was known more affectionately by his soldiers, throughout his senior career, as “Uncle Bill”. Despite his outstanding leadership of 14th Army in the Burma Campaign, and later appointment as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), he is much less well known outside of military historical circles than, for example, his immediate predecessor as CIGS, Viscount Montgomery. Nevertheless, a National Army Museum poll in ranked him, jointly with the Duke of Wellington, Britain’s Greatest General.
This online exhibition seeks to give him more of the recognition that he deserves, covering not just his time in command in Burma but also his early career and the lasting legacy of his influence on the British Army’s understanding and practice of leadership.
Born in , into a family of modest means in Bishopston, then a village on the outskirts of Bristol (now entirely merged in the City’s sprawl), Slim was an unlikely candidate for commissioned service in the Army, let alone one day to reach its highest rank. He ascribed his int
Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim - Softcover
Synopsis
Masterly biography of the 'greatest commander of the 20th century'.
Field Marshal Slim is less well known than other Second World War generals, but is now widely regarded as the best. To the men under his command he was 'Uncle Bill', probably the most respected and loved military leader since the Duke of Marlborough. Born into an impoverished family in Bristol in and brought up in the Black Country, he was commissioned as a temporary Second Lieutenant on the outbreak of the First World War. Twice seriously wounded, in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia, he was awarded the Military Cross in After the war he was unable to remain an officer in the class-ridden British Army without private means and transferred to the Indian Army, where he developed an enduring affection for the Ghurkhas and began writing short stories to supplement his income.
Slim's career stalled between the wars, but during this time he developed the leadership techniques that would make him a national hero within a decade and which are still taught today at Sandhurst. Promotion came rapidly with the Second World War, and in Ma
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