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William Slim

United Kingdomb. 6 August 1891 · d. 14 December 1970Add to favourites

Commanded the British Fourteenth Army in the Burma campaign after being promoted to lead it following the failed Arakan operations. His forces held off the Japanese invasion of India at Imphal and Kohima, and the Japanese advance collapsed by July 1944. In 1945 his army took Meiktila and Mandalay (20 March) and then captured Rangoon. He was made Field Marshal in January 1949 and served as Governor-General of Australia from 8 May 1953 to 2 February 1960.