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Document (item) - Invitation, City of Melbourne, Dinner on the Occasion of Conferring of Honorary Freedom of the City of Melbourne Upon His Excellency Field Marshall Sir William Slim,
WilliamSlim Freedom of the City of Melbourne Upon Field Marshall SirWilliam WILLIAMSLIM / GCB, GCMG, GCVC, GBE, DSO, MC, KStJ, / GOVERNOR MARSHALL SIRWILLIAMSLIM / GCB, GCMG, GCVC, GBE, DSO, MC, KStJ
The Municipality of Kew (), the Borough of Kew (), the Town of Kew () and the City of Kew () were local government instrumentalities in the State of Victoria. In , the City of Kew was amalgamated, together with the former Cities of Camberwell and Hawthorn, into the new City of Boroondara ( ). Like other local government entities of the period, Kew was administered by town clerks. The two notable town clerks in Kew's history were H. H. (Henry Hirst) Harrison () and W. D. (William Dickie) Birrell (). Harri
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William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim
Field MarshalWilliam namn Slim, 1st Viscount Slim, KG, GCB, GCMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC, KStJ (6 August – 14 månad ), usually known as Bill Slim,[1] 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 ledare of the Imperial General Staff. From to he was Governor-General of Australia.
In the early s, Slim also wrote novels, short stories, and other publications beneath the pen name Anthony Mills.
Early years[edit]
William Slim was born at 72 Belmont Road, St Andrews, Bristol, the son of John Slim by his marriage to Charlotte Tucker, and was ba
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Field Marshal William Slim
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Friends of Padre Steve&#;s World,
I have been thinking about leadership and moral courage lately and came to remember a British general from the Second World War whose example of both is all to often forgotten even in military circles. I hope you enjoy.
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Padre Steve+
Field Marshal William Slim was one of the most brilliant commanders of the Second World War. He gets little press and there are not a lot of books written about him. Slim was one of those unique officers who served on the periphery of the British Empire as an office in the British Indian Army. He was a clerk in a factory who attended the University of Birmingham and commissioned as a reserve officer through its reserve officer training course; he did not attend Sandhurst, the British equivalent of the U.S. Military Academy.
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