Robert Harold Nimmo

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Robert Harold Nimmo
22 November 1893 – 4 January 1966 (aged 72)
Brigadier Nimmo in 1945
Nickname	Putt
Place of birth	near Einasleigh, Queensland
Place of death	Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Allegiance	Australian Army
Years of service	1912-1950
Rank	Major General
Commands held	34th Infantry Brigade
Battles/wars	World War I * Anzac Cove * Sinai and Palestine Campaign World War II
Awards	CBE, MID
Other work	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.

[edit] References

• Neil James, Peter Londey, 'Nimmo, Robert Harold (1893 - 1966)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplementary Volume, MUP, 2005, pp 303-304.