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Term as Governor. Protestant Revolution of 1689. Flight from Maryland. See also. References. William Joseph (governor) William Joseph was the 11th Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1688 to 1689. He was appointed by the colony's proprietor Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore.
William Joseph "Wild Bill" Donovan KBE (January 1, 1883 – February 8, 1959) was an American soldier, lawyer, intelligence officer and diplomat. He is best known for serving as the head of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA ...
William Bradford ( c. 19 March 1590 – 9 May 1657) was an English Puritan Separatist originally from the West Riding of Yorkshire in Northern England. He moved to Leiden in Holland in order to escape persecution from King James I of England, and then emigrated to the Plymouth Colony on the Mayflower in 1620.
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- Early Years
- First World War
- Interwar Career
- Second World War
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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. 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. In ...
Despite having no other connection to the university, in 1912 Slim joined the Birmingham University Officers' Training Corps, and he was thus able to be commissioned as a temporary second lieutenant into the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 22 August 1914, on the outbreak of the First World War; in later life, as a result of his modest social origins...
Slim became battalion adjutant with the 6th Gurkha Rifles in 1921. On 1 January 1926, he married Aileen Robertson, daughter of Rev John Anderson Robertson (d.1941) minister of Cramond near Edinburgh. They had one son and one daughter. Later that year Slim was sent to the Staff College, Quetta. On 5 June 1929, he was appointed a General Staff Office...
East African Campaign
On the outbreak of the Second World War, Slim was given command of the 10th Indian Infantry Brigade of the 5th Indian Infantry Division and was sent to Sudan. He took part in the East African campaign to liberate Ethiopia from the Italians. Slim was wounded again in Eritrea. On 21 January 1941, he was hit when his vehicle was strafed by Fiat CR.42 fighters during the advance on Agordat.
Middle East
Recovering from his wounds but still unfit for active service, Slim was temporarily employed on the General Staff at GHQ in Delhi. He was involved in the planning for potential operations in Iraq where trouble was expected. By early May 1941 Slim had been appointed Brigadier General Staff (chief staff officer) to Edward Quinan the commander designate for operations in Iraq, arriving in Basra on 7 May. Not long afterwards, Major-General Fraser, commanding the 10th Indian Infantry Division, fel...
Burma campaign
In March 1942, Slim was given command of Burma Corps, also known as BurCorps, consisting of the 17th Indian Infantry Division and 1st Burma Division. Slim was made acting lieutenant general on 8 May 1942. The corps was under attack in Burma by the Japanese and, heavily outclassed by the more mobile and flexible Japanese, was soon forced to withdraw to India. On 28 October 1942, Slim was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire(CBE). Slim then took over XV Corps under the comma...
Initial retirement from the army
At the end of 1945 Slim returned to the UK. On 1 January 1946, he was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the British Empire (GBE). and took the post of Commandant of the Imperial Defence College for its first course since 1939. On 7 February 1947 he was made an Aide-de-camp (ADC) to the King. At the end of his two-year appointment at the Imperial Defence College Slim retired as ADC and from the army on 11 May 1948. He had been approached by both India and Pakistan to become C-in-C of t...
Return to the army
However, in November 1948 the British Prime Minister Clement Attlee rejected the proposal by Viscount Montgomery that he should be succeeded as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS) by John Crocker and instead brought back Slim from retirement in the rank of field marshal in January 1949 with formal appointment to the Army Council from 1 January 1949.Slim thus became the first Indian Army officer to become CIGS. On 2 January 1950, he was promoted to Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the...
Governor-General of Australia
On 10 December 1952 Slim was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Order of St Michael and St George (GCMG) on his appointment as Governor-General of Australia which post he took up on 8 May 1953. On 2 January 1953, he was appointed a Knight of the Order of St. John (KStJ). Slim was a popular choice for Governor-General since he was an authentic war hero who had fought alongside Australians at Gallipoli and in the Middle East. In 1954 he was able to welcome Queen Elizabeth II on the first visit by...
During his tenure as Governor-General of Australia, Slim was patron of the Fairbridge Farm school child migration to Australia. Forty-seven years later, in 2007, and thirty-seven years after Slim's death, three former child migrants alleged Slim sexually assaulted them during visits to Fairbridge Farm. The allegations were dismissed at the time bot...
William Slim Drive, in the Canberra district of Belconnen, was named after him. Despite an independent review commissioned by the Australian Capital Territory Government, which returned no recommen...The Slim Officers' Mess at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurstis named after him and was opened in August 2004 by his son.On 7 September 2008, a plaque in Slim's memory, and those who served with him, was unveiled at the Cenotaph in his native Bristol. Fr Robert King of the Diocese of Clifton was joined by faith leade...The road Viscount Slim Avenue, in Whyalla, South Australia is named after him.Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely has recommended Slim's memoirs (Defeat into Victory) (1956) in which Slim candidly talked about his own mistakes in the Burma campaign. The book has never been out of print. Kiszely has described Slim as "perhaps the Greatest Commander of the 20th Century" and has commenting on Slim's "self-deprecating style" Mil...
Defeat into Victory by Field Marshal Sir William Slim; Originally published 1956. More recent editions are NY: Buccaneer Books ISBN 1-56849-077-1, Cooper Square Press ISBN 0-8154-1022-0; London: Ca...Other publications include Courage and Other Broadcasts (1957); and Unofficial History(1959).ABC staff (17 November 2009). "The Long Journey Home". ABC. Retrieved 26 March 2012.Croke, Vicki (2015). Elephant Company: The Inspiring Story of an Unlikely Hero and the Animals Who Helped Him Save Lives in World War II. Random House. ISBN 978-0812981650.Dower, John (1986). War Without Mercy: Race & Power in the Pacific War. New York: Pantheon. ISBN 0394751728.Ford, Douglas (April 2005). "British Intelligence on Japanese Army Morale during the Pacific War: Logical Analysis or Racial Stereotyping?". Journal of Military History. London. 69 (2): 439–474. do...William Joseph was the 11th Proprietary Governor of Maryland from 1688 to 1689. He was appointed by the colony's proprietor Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore.Joseph attempted to maintain control of the colony in the proprietor's name, but religious turmoil related to the Glorious Revolution in England led to Joseph's being removed from office by Protestant colonists and the Calvert family ...
