Uncle Bill: The Authorised Biography of Field Marshal Viscount Slim

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Bandit • Explorer • Gambler • Herbalist • Horseman • Master Hunter • Sharpshooter • Survivalist • Weapons Expert Later on, Uncle is present for John and Abigail's wedding playing banjo. Despite Charles and Sadie subsequently departing Beecher's Hope for good, Uncle instead opts to stay at the ranch with the Marston family. Following the assault on the ranch, Uncle is buried atop the ridge at Beecher's Hope, next to John. His grave marker provides no birth year and his epitaph reads " Impossible to forget". Earlier in the chapter, during the events of " Polite Society, Valentine Style", he can be seen with a standard Cattleman Revolver. Field Marshal Viscount Slim was known more affectionately by his soldiers, throughout his senior career, as “Uncle Bill”. Despite his outstanding leadership of 14 th Army in the Burma Campaign, and later appointment as Chief of the Imperial General Staff (CIGS), he is much less well known outside of military historical circles than, for example, his immediate predecessor as CIGS, Viscount Montgomery. Nevertheless, a National Army Museum poll in 2011 ranked him, jointly with the Duke of Wellington, Britain’s Greatest General.

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A hanger‐on and good‐time guy, Uncle is always around when the whiskey is open and never around when there’s any work to be done. If he wasn’t so entertaining, Dutch would have cut him loose years ago. In 1907, after helping John build his ranch, Uncle can sometimes be seen lazing about in the exact spot where he dies in 1911.Colm O'Driscoll | Leviticus Cornwall | Andrew Milton | Catherine Braithwaite | Angelo Bronte | Alberto Fussar | Eagle Flies | Rains Fall Uncle shares the likeness of his voice and motion capture actor Spider Madison. Madison also portrayed a similar character to Uncle in the 2005 short Lookin' for Some Posse. Slim’s revitalisation of the Army had proved him to be a general of administrative genius’ argues the historian Duncan Anderson: ‘his conduct of the Burma retreat, the first and second Arakan, and Imphal-Kohima, had shown him to be a brilliant defensive general; and now, the Mandalay-Meiktila operation had placed him in the same class as Guderian, Manstein and Patton as an offensive commander.’ Mountbatten claimed that despite the reputation of others, such as the renowned self-publicist, Montgomery of Alamein, it was Slim who should rightly be regarded as the greatest British general of the Second World War. Slim’s failing was to deprecate any form of self-publicity believing, perhaps naively, that the sound of victory had a music all of its own. The ‘spin doctors’ of our own political generation have sadly taught us something Monty knew instinctively and exploited to his own advantage, namely that if you don’t blow your own trumpet no one else will. The acting is marvellous, Brian Keith is great as Uncle Bill with a great sense of comic timing and a warm presence too. Kathy Garver shows herself as a promising young actress as Cissy and Johnny Wittaker is a cute Jody. The real stars though are Anissa Jones who is so heartfelt as Buffy and Sebastian Cabot whose Mr French is just brilliant. If you are enjoying the exhibition please consider a donation to The Gurkha Museum Trust. All donations are greatly appreciated and help enable us to celebrate Gurkha heritage.

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Alan Grace This is the British Forces Network: The Story of Forces Broadcasting in Germany 1996 ISBN 0-7509-1105-0 p.119 Uncle can be seen with a yellow-brown residue in his beard, implying his drinking/smoking habits. In Red Dead Redemption 2, this residue is absent.In " The Aftermath of Genesis," Uncle is seen drinking whiskey in the kitchen with Pearson after Charles Smith and Arthur Morgan return from a hunting trip. After a brief exchange of banter, Arthur shoos Uncle away. Slim’s success as a higher commander, and his approach to leadership, owe much to his experiences in the First world War, to his service as a junior and field officer with Gurkha units and to his extensive study of his profession. The stories were popular with children and adults alike. When interviewed by Dan van der Vat in 1975 for The Times, Bill Mitchell revealed that he had left England 26 years previously and felt that it had become "an alien land" to which he had no wish to return. However his stories paint a nostalgic picture of an England from bygone days and helped give listeners stationed abroad during the Cold War era a "morale-boosting link with home". [5] Urban myths and legends [ edit ] Uncle is one of the few undead that does not chase the player when alerted. In the mission " Love in the Time of Plague", no matter how far the player runs away from Uncle and Abigail - nor how many shots they fire from their gun - Uncle will only slowly walk towards the player and never give chase to them. In the mission " On a Pale Horse", Uncle appears to have not been buried next to John, in contrast to the base game where he was buried a couple of yards away from John.