- Despite their contrasting personalities, was very good friends with his American counterpart, the controversial General Joseph Stilwell.
- Apart from his native english, he was fluent in Hindi and Urdu, which he attributed was the decisive factor for maintaining cohesion in his 14th Army comprised mostly of Indian soldiers from diverse social and religious backgrounds.
- Was bought out of retirement in 1948, promoted to Field Marshall and appointed as Field Marshall Bernard Montgomery's successor as Chief Of Imperial General Staff, the first officer from the British Indian Army to hold the rank.
- His autobiography From Retreat Into Victory is still considered a much sought after field operations manual in military academies the world over.
- Widely considered by most neutral historians as the greatest combat commander from either sides of World War 2 for his feats as the commanding general of the British 14th Army in Burma which he reshaped from a retreated beaten formation into a formidable combat force and despite being supplied only from airborne drops throughout the Burma Campaign defeated the much accustomed to jungle warfare Japanese army, indirectly paving the path for the liberation of Southeast Asia.
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