![]() ![]() In Birmingham, he attended St Philip's Grammar School, Edgbaston and King Edward's School, Birmingham. He was brought up first in Bristol, attending St Bonaventure's Primary School, then St Brendan's College, before moving to Birmingham in his teens. William Slim was born at 72 Belmont Road, St Andrews, Bristol, the son of John Slim by his marriage to Charlotte Tucker, and was baptised there at St Bonaventure's Roman Catholic church, Bishopston. In the early 1930s, Slim also wrote novels, short stories, and other publications under the pen name Anthony Mills. From 1953 to 1959 he was Governor-General of Australia. 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. ![]() During the Second World War he led the Fourteenth Army, the so-called "forgotten army" in the Burma campaign. Slim saw active service in both the First and Second World Wars and was wounded in action three times. ![]() Field Marshal William Joseph Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, KStJ (6 August 1891 – 14 December 1970), usually known as Bill Slim, was a British military commander and the 13th Governor-General of Australia. ![]()
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