Robert Nimmo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Australian Army general
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Place of Birth: Einasleigh, Queensland, Australia
About Robert Nimmo
- Lieutenant General Robert Harold Nimmo, (22 November 1893 – 4 January 1966) was a senior Australian Army officer who served in both the First and Second World Wars.
- 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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