Lieutenant General Robert Harold Nimmo, was a senior Australian Army officer who served in World War I, in World War II, with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, as general officer commanding (GOC) Northern Command in Australia, and finally as the chief military observer of the United Nations Military...
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Members of the first fifteen, first grade rugby team, at the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1913. Robert Nimmo is seated on the ground on the left.
Nimmo (sitting on deck front centre) with a group of officers en route to the Middle East
The 5th Light Horse Regiment camp at Dueidar
Nimmo (left front) with officers of the 5th Light Horse Regiment at Romani in November 1916
Group portrait of Brigadier General Charles Cox, sitting, and staff of his 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade, pictured here in Palestine, November 1918. Also pictured is Cox's brigade major, Major Nimmo.
Nimmo and his son James, who was killed in 1944Awards 2
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Lieutenant General Robert Harold Nimmo, was a senior Australian Army officer who served in World War I, in World War II, with the British Commonwealth Occupation Force in Japan, as general officer commanding (GOC) Northern Command in Australia, and finally as the chief military observer of the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan from 1950 until his death in 1966. Raised on a sheep station in far north Queensland, Nimmo attended the Southport School in southern Queensland before entering the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in 1912. He was the senior cadet of his class, graduating early to participate in World War I. He served with the 5th Light Horse Regiment during the Gallipoli and Sinai and Palestine campaigns, reaching the rank of major. He was praised for his leadership as a light horse squadron commander and for his skills as the brigade major of the 1st Light Horse Brigade in the final stages of the war.
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