GENERAL SLIM NEW CHIEF OF BRITISH GENERAL STAFF

Grey River Argus, 11 October 1948, Page 4

GENERAL SLIM NEW CHIEF OF BRITISH GENERAL STAFF

(Reuter —N.Z.P.A.) (Rec. 6.30) LONDON, Oct. 10 ihe War Office has announced that General Sir William Slim has been appointed Chief of the Imperial General Stall in succession to FieldMarshal Lord Montgomery. General Slim commanded Britain' 0 war-time armies in Burma. Now aged 58, General Slim in the first World War served .with tne Royal Warwickshire Regiment at Gallipoli and in France and Mesopotamia He was wounded at Gallipoli and in Mespopotamia, where he was awarded the Military Cross. Later he joined the 6th Gurkha Rifles, Indian Army. From 1934 to 1936 he was instructor at the Staff College at Camberley, later taking an appointment ai the Imperial Defence College. He was also commandant of the 2nd Battalion, 7th Gurkha Rifles and commandant of the Senior Officers’ School, India. During World War II General Slim was commander of the Allied Land Forces in South-east Asia from .1943 to 1946. General Slim was' also commandant of the Imperial Defence. College from 1946 to 1947, a colonel In the 7th Gurkha Rifles, and a colonel in the West Yorkshire Regiment. Last year he was Aide-de-camp General to the King.