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The Beginning of the Greatest Peacekeeper: Major Robert Harold Nimmo: Part One

Posted on October 9, 2022October 27, 2022 By Docwinters
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The Greatest Peacekeeper Part One: Major Robert Harold Nimmo: ANZAC Administrator – I Was Only Doing My Job: Australia's Military History

21-DECEMBER-1914, This is part one of the life service and Legacy of Professional Soldier Major Robert Harold Nimmo, who at the commencement of the First World War was an Officer Cadet at the Royal Military College Duntroon. Enlisting upon accelerated graduation he was posted to the 5th Australian Light Horse Regiment at the rank of Lieutenant and would sail to Egypt, eventually reaching Gallipoli on May 16. Possessing both front-line combat experience and administrative organisational skills, Nimmo would quickly progress through the ranks of the ANZAC Mounted Division, finishing the war as a Brigade Major in the 1st Australian Light Horse Brigade to whom the end of the war would only mean a continuation of a career that would span 52 years.

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