{On front of plinth:}
Field Marshal The Viscount Slim, KG, CGB,GGMG, GCVO, GBE, DSO, MC
14th Army Burma, 1943 - 1945,
Governor General and Commander in Chief, Australia, 1953 - 1960.
{On back of plinth:}
Commander in Chief, Allied Land Forces South Est Asia,
Chief of the Imperial General Staff
Governor and Constable, Windsor Castle
{On both sides of plinth, below a bronze star:}
Defeat into victory
{On low shallow plinth: left, front, right, back:}
Rangoon, Sittang,
Kohima, Imphal, Arakan,
Chindwin,
Irrawaddy, Mandalay, Meiktila
{On the base of the statue:}
Ivor Roberts-Jones RA
Cast by Meridian Fine Art, London
SW1, Whitehall, Raleigh Green
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