MILITARY PERSONNEL

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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim has received more than 874,935 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim is the 1,657th most popular military personnel (down from 1,513th in 2019), the 2,974th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,576th in 2019) and the 77th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim ranks 1,657 out of 2,058. Before him are Martha Christina Tiahahu, Agha Petros, Cleitus the White, Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset, Ma Zhongying, and Henry Gunther. After him are Henry Halleck, Adolf Ehrnrooth, Wilhelm Heye, Ioannis Frangoudis, Nicanor, and Frederick Townsend Ward.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim ranks 179. Before him are George Marshall, Charles Journet, Anatoly Pepelyayev, Mariano Ospina Pérez, Raymond Bernard, and Ted Meredith. After him are Alfred Sturtevant, Yevgeny Polivanov, Philipp Etter, Mae Busch, Princess Pilar of Bavaria, and Françoise Rosay. Among people deceased in 1970, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim ranks 162. Before him are Eva Hesse, Johnny Hodges, Robert Gerhard, Peter Doi, Giancarlo Cornaggia-Medici, and Iuliu Hossu. After him are Pierre Veyron, Alfred Sturtevant, Anna Louise Strong, Jérôme Carcopino, Terry Sawchuk, and Adhemar Pimenta.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim ranks 2,974 out of 8,785. Before him are Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436), Amy Robsart (1532), Philip Henry Gosse (1810), Karen Spärck Jones (1935), Robert Knox (1791), and Anthony Phillips (1951). After him are Michael Oakeshott (1901), Susanna Hall (1583), Sue Townsend (1946), Enoch Powell (1912), James Francis Stephens (1792), and Hermione Baddeley (1906).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim ranks 77. Before him are Charles Warren (1840), Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood (1724), Christopher Cradock (1862), Edward Braddock (1695), George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney (1718), and Henry Beaufort, 3rd Duke of Somerset (1436). After him are Timothy Laurence (1955), Roy Urquhart (1901), Tom Phillips (1888), Lawrence Oates (1880), Charles Lee (1731), and Frederick Browning (1896).

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