Robert Harold Nimmo

Infobox Military Person
name= Robert Harold Nimmo
lived= 22 November 1893 – Death date and age|1966|1|4|1893|11|22|df=yes
placeofbirth= near Einasleigh, Queensland
placeofdeath= Rawalpindi, Pakistan


caption=Brigadier Nimmo in 1945
nickname= Putt
allegiance= Australian Army
serviceyears= 1912-1950
rank= Major General
commands= 34th Infantry Brigade
battles= World War I
* Anzac Cove
* Sinai and Palestine Campaign
World War II
awards= CBE, MID
laterwork=Chief military observer of UNMOGIP

Major General Robert Harold Nimmo CBE, (1893-11-22 – 1966-01-04) was an Australian soldier who served in both World War I and World War II and eventually rose to the rank of Lieutenant General.

Nimmo also acted as chief military observer to the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan from 1950 until his death in 1966. Nimmo died in his sleep, of a heart attack, on 1966-01-04 at Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and was buried in the Anzac section of Mount Gravatt cemetery, Brisbane, with full military and U.N. honours; senior representatives of both India and Pakistan attended his funeral. His wife and their son and daughter, and the daughter of his first marriage, survived him.

References

*Neil James, Peter Londey, ' [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/AS10372b.htm Nimmo, Robert Harold (1893 - 1966)] ', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplementary Volume, MUP, 2005, pp 303-304.