Nickname(s) Putt Rank Lieutenant general Battles and wars World War II | Name Robert Nimmo Years of service 1912–1950 Allegiance Australian Army | |
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Commands held 1st Armoured Brigade
1st Motor Brigade
United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan Battles/wars World War I
Gallipoli Campaign
Sinai and Palestine Campaign
World War II Other work Chief military observer of UNMOGIP Died January 4, 1966, Rawalpindi, Pakistan Awards Order of the British Empire, Mentioned in dispatches | ||
Lieutenant General Robert Harold Nimmo (22 November 1893 – 4 January 1966) was an Australian soldier who served in both World War I and World War II and 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.
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