Robert Nimmo


Robert Harold Nimmo, 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.