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Robert Harold Nimmo
Nimmo (AWM 097387)
Brigadier Nimmo in 1945
Nickname Putt
Born (1893-11-22)November 22, 1893
Died 4 January 1966(1966-01-04) (aged 72)
Place of birth Einasleigh, Queensland
Place of death Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Allegiance Australian Army
Years of service 1912–1950
Rank Lieutenant General
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Awards
Other work Chief military observer of UNMOGIP

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.

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