Robert Harold Nimmo

Lieutenant General Robert Harold Nimmo CBE (22 November 1893 – 4 January 1966) 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 4 January 1966 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, 'Nimmo, Robert Harold (1893 - 1966)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Supplementary Volume, MUP, 2005, pp 303–304.
• Australian War Memorial photograph, taken at sea, 10 December 1914, en route to Egypt, immediately following his graduation at Duntroon in October 1914. Nimmo is dead centre, sitting on the ground (N.B. His fellow cadet/graduate Malcolm Stuart Kennedy is one row behind Nimmo, at the far right (Nimmo's far left). The record is mistake; he was not a major at that time)