![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() He spent two years on the staff of the army headquarters, where he was made a temporary Major in the 6th Gurkha Rifles in November 1918. Wounded again in Mesopotamia in 1917, Slim was evacuated to India. After a period of convalescence in Britain, he returned to action in Mesopotamia, where he fought for the next six months and was awarded a Military Cross in 1916. He was wounded in action at the Battle of Sari Bair Ridge in August 1915. He was commissioned in the Royal Warwickshire Regiment with the rank of temporary Second Lieutenant in 1914 and was sent to fight at Gallipoli. He was first employed as an elementary teacher and then as a clerk at an engineering firm, Steward and Lloyds from 1910-14, joining Birmingham University Officers' Training Corps in 1912. He married Aileen Robertson in 1926 (died 1993), with whom he had one son, John, and one daughter, Una. He was educated at St Philip's School, Edgbaston and King Edward's School, Birmingham, 1903-10, where he joined the Officer’s Training Corps. William Slim was born in Bishopston, near Bristol on 6 August 1891, the son of John Slim, a hardware merchant and his wife, Charlotte Slim (nee Tucker). ![]()
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