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fWotD Episode 2435: Robert Nimmo Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of the featured Wikipedia article every day.The featured article for Thursday, 4 January 2024 is Robert Nimmo.Lieutenant General Robert Harold Nimmo, (22 November 1893 – 4 January 1966) 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, which graduated 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.At the end of the war, Nimmo transferred to the permanent Australian Staff Corps, and served as a company commander and instructor at Duntroon before a series of staff postings at cavalry formations in Victoria. He was also a talented sportsman, representing Australia in field hockey, and the state of Victoria in a range of sports. After attending the British Army's Senior Officers' School, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and served as a senior staff officer on the headquarters of two cavalry divisions. At the outbreak of World War II, he was initially retained in Australia to help develop an Australian armoured force, and was subsequently promoted to brigadier and commanded a cavalry and then an armoured brigade in Australia. Following this he was posted as a senior staff officer at corps and then at army headquarters level in Australia. Nimmo administered command of Northern Territory Force before deploying to the island of Bougainville in the Territory of New Guinea to command the 4th Base Sub Area, the logistics organisation supporting the Bougainville campaign. His final posting of the war was as a senior staff officer on First Australian Army headquarters in Lae in New Guinea.Soon after the Japanese surrender, Nimmo was selected to command the 34th Brigade, and led it from Morotai in the Dutch East Indies to Japan, where it formed part of the British Commonwealth Occupation Force. Upon returning from Japan to Australia, he was promoted to major general and posted as GOC Northern Command. He was appointed as a Commander of the British Empire in 1950, and retired from the army at the end of that year. Almost simultaneously he was appointed as the chief military observer of the UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP), responsible for monitoring the 800-kilometre (500 mi) long ceasefire line between the Indian and Pakistani armed forces, which extended from the Kashmir Valley to the Himalayas. He was promoted by Australia to honorary lieutenant general in 1954, at the suggestion of the United Nations. In 1964, the UN Secretariat described him as "by far the most successful United Nations observer ever". He died of a heart attack in his sleep on 4 January 1966 at Rawalpindi, Pakistan, and was buried in the Anzac section of Mount Gravatt Cemetery, Brisbane, with full military and United Nations honours and senior representatives of both India and Pakistan were present. Nimmo was the first Australian to command a multinational peacekeeping force, and his command of UNMOGIP remains the longest-ever command of a UN operation.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 01:14 UTC on Thursday, 4 January 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Robert Nimmo on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm Kimberly Neural.

Aussie historian, author & entertainer Jim Haynes joins Overnight each week for his unique knowledge of the not-so-famous characters from Australia's history. This week Jim shines the spotlight on Oliver Hogue – Aussie soldier, journalist & poet. Oliver Hogue (29 April 1880 – 3 March 1919) wrote under the pseudonym of Trooper Bluegum and published a collection of letters home in 1916.  Love Letters of an Anzac is a beautifully written series of letters from Hogue to his wife at home in Sydney. There is only a thin veneer of fiction attempted and the letters are, in effect, a wonderful series of short stories which trace the course of the campaign. Oliver Hogue was born and raised in inner Sydney, at Glebe. It is a sign of a different age that this inner-city dweller was an excellent horseman. He enlisted at the outbreak of war and served as an officer in the 2nd Light Horse Brigade and, later, in the famous Camel Corps in Palestine, where he attained the rank of major. Hogue was a journalist in civilian life and an excellent writer with an eye for detail and mood. Tragically, having survived the war, he died of pneumonia in England in 1919 and never returned to his beloved ‘Bonnie Jean', to whom he often signed his letters, ‘Yours till the end of all things'. He also wrote and published another account of his experiences at Gallipoli, Trooper Bluegum at The Dardanelles, and stories from that collection also appear in this volume. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With special guest: Michael Molkentin… in conversation with Bill Kable If we are looking for a genuine Australian hero then we need go no further than South Australian Sir Ross Macpherson Smith born in 1892. After he volunteered to enlist for the First World War Ross Smith had a very full but tragically short life. His first experience of war was to wade ashore at Gallipoli, not in the first wave on 25 April 1915 and not on a horse as he might have expected having joined the 1st Light Horse Brigade as an excellent horseman. His early experience in the War was mostly as an infantry man although he did have one engagement mounted on a horse. Podcast (mp3)

In this one the 2nd Light Horse Brigade take their place in the front line trenches at Gallipoli and have their first cracks at 'Johnny Turk.' Here is a bit of it: "The day after the big attack General Birdwood asked one of the 1st Light Horse Regiment if he had killed many Turks, and he answered, "Yes, miles of the cows." As a matter of fact the Australians were almost quarrelling for positions in the firing-line that night. When the fight was at its hottest, men in the supports were offering bribes of tobacco and cigarettes to the men in the firing-line to swap places with them just for ten minutes."

La flûtiste franco-australienne de renommée mondiale, Jane Rutter, a dédié son dernier single - The Last Post - au milliers de soldats aborigènes qui ont combattu pendant la Première Guerre mondiale et à la mémoire de son grand-père, le vétéran de Gallipoli John Noble Shipton, un des combattants de la Light Horse Brigade qui a vu l'action dans la campagne des Dardanelles.

With special guest: Michael Molkentin… in conversation with Bill Kable If we are looking for a genuine Australian hero then we need go no further than South Australian Sir Ross Macpherson Smith born in 1892. After he volunteered to enlist for the First World War Ross Smith had a very full but tragically short life. His first experience of war was to wade ashore at Gallipoli, not in the first wave on 25 April 1915 and not on a horse as he might have expected having joined the 1st Light Horse Brigade as an excellent horseman. His early experience in the War was mostly as an infantry man although he did have one engagement mounted on a horse. However he found his real interest was in the then new-fangled airplanes operated by the Australian Flying Corps (a forerunner of the Royal Australian Air Force). Ross started off as an observer sitting in the back of a two seater bi-plane where he quickly established a reputation as one of the best. From there he was accepted into Flying School despite not having the usual social class required of British flyers. After only 14 hours flying he went solo and became what we would later describe as a flying ace with the number of enemy aircraft that he brought down in dog fights.Listen Now (mp3)

In this episode of ‘My favourite item, unraveling Brisbane’s history piece by piece’ we sit on the pew in the St Andrew’s Uniting Church with Noel Adsett, Chairman of the Heritage Committee of the Church Council of St Andrews, who shares with us the many stories contained with a special space. Want to visit? St Andrew’s Uniting Church is open Monday to Friday, 11am to 2pm. A guide is on hand to help you uncover the history behind this beautiful building. A biography of Rev Dr Ernest Merrington, complied by Noel, can be found here: http://heritage.saintandrews.org.au/rev-dr-ernest-northcroft-merrington/ With special thanks: Mr Noel Adsett, Chairman of the Heritage Committee of the Church Council of St Andrews Know something more about this item? Post a comment! Moments in history are shared experiences and helping museums find out more about items in their collection is a great way to become involved in documenting Brisbane’s heritage. Music: Aliaksei Yukhevich, Light Corporate, jamendo.com, Licensed. Image: Gallipoli, Turkey, 1915. Chaplain Ernest Northcroft Merrington (right) conducting a communion service for members of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the "Apex"; National Collection of the Australian War Memorial (CO4178); Public Domain.

George LAMBERT, The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the Nek, 7 August 1915 1924, oil on canvas, 152.5 (h) x 305.7 (w) cm, Australian War Memorial, Canberra, commissioned in 1919, acquired in 1925

The squatter’s daughter created a stir in Australia when it was first exhibited in 1924 because Lambert was concerned with creating a new way of painting Australian landscape. He assimilated the blue-and-gold palette that Streeton had used to convey the heat and glare of the Australian scene, but he moved from an intuitive response to the land to a more formalist approach. He counterbalanced the strong verticals of the trees with the triangular shape of the hill and the horizontal streak of green grass in the lower centre of the picture. He painted with tight, controlled brushstrokes, so the image seems still, but lifelike, with the trees and grass embalmed by a sharp, scintillating light. He observed in around 1927 that ‘when the Apple gum gilded by the dying sun comes up for technical analysis, the memories of Giorgione’s famous tree ... make it look more beautiful’ (ML MSS 97/8, item 5). The illusionism of the scene encourages us to look at it as an image of a particular person in a specific place at a certain time – as a picture of Gwendoline ‘Dee’ Ryrie in white shirt and jodhpurs leading her horse (which Lambert had given her) across the family property, Micalago, during the Christmas and New Year of 1923–24. Lambert’s prime interest, however, in The squatter’s daughter was in conveying a universal squatter’s daughter. He gave it a generic title rather than the specific ‘Gwendoline Ryrie at Micalago’ , to indicate that it was an image of Australian life. Lambert attacked the intuitive approach to landscape and, in response, critics such as Howard Ashton maintained that Lambert’s work lacked emotion. But this was his aim. He advised young landscape painters that there was always perfect design in nature and that they should reduce it to definite forms, as he had simplified the mass of the hill and sharpened its outline in The squatter’s daughter . He portrayed the figure of the squatter’s daughter as if she were located artificially in her environment, as if she were a cut-out shape pasted onto it. He described her as passing ‘gracefully across the foreground’ and looking ‘like a figure on a Greek vase’ (ML MSS 97/8, item 5), indicating that he purposely presented her in profile in an arranged pose and detached from her setting. He intentionally created a stylised view. That the girl is not immersed in the landscape (as in A bush idyll c.1896, cat.3), but merely passes across the land, is appropriate. By the 1920s many Australian landowners did not need to work their properties themselves but were able to employ others to do so, and a number of city dwellers had the time and money to visit the rural areas for their health and for recreation. The squatter’s daughter reflects this new relationship of Australians with the land. Lambert’s formalist response in this paintinginspired other painters. Hans Heysen wrote on 20 August 1924 that it was ‘different from anything else painted in Australia’ (ML MSS 285/87), and in 1930 that it was a picture which ‘in its search for character and form’, was ‘an object lesson for the young landscape painters of Australia’ (Lambert 1930). In 1931, Lionel Lindsay commented: When the ‘Squatter’s Daughter’ was first shown, to the best of my knowledge, only three Australian artists proclaimed its originality and truth. Such a break with suave sentiment and surface drawing met with a protective opposition – here was almost attack upon established income. It was pronounced hard, untrue, unsympathetic. To-day we know this landscape to possess the largest local truth, supreme draughtsmanship and design, and to exhale the very spirit of Australia (AA 1931). As a result of Lambert’s example and his denunciation of the sentimental Australian landscape, artists began to make changes in their work. They came to believe that they should now explore organic form, seek greater simplicity and use sharper contours. Lambert thought highly of The squatter’s daughter , asking 500 guineas for it at a time when he received only £500 for his most significant battle painting, The charge of the 3rd Light Horse Brigade at the Nek 1924 (cat.95), on which he worked for several years. Lambert sold The squatter’s daughter to George Pitt-Rivers in England in 1926. Henry Lawson had published a poem called ‘The squatter’s daughter’ in 1889, of which Lambert no doubt was aware. It related the story of a wealthy squatter who encouraged his daughter to become engaged to a wealthy lordling; however, she elopes with a stockman instead. Eventually the father becomes reconciled with the daughter and son-in-law. In 1910 a silent film was produced, based on a 1907 stage melodrama with the same title and same cast. It was written by Edmund Duggan and Bert Bailey. In 1933 The squatter’s daughter , a sound film, featured a strong young horsewoman in jodhpurs who saves the family property.

In this episode I talk about the Gallipoli landings from World War One and chat a little bit about using Wikipedia.Gallipoli Landings.Links:Matt's today in History.imdb page on Gallipoli (1981).Blindfold and Alone Cathryn Corns and John Hughes-Wilson at Amazon.com.ANZAC Day at the Australian War Memorial.Here are the images I promised.The Dardanelles, you can see how thin the strait is. (link)Australian troops at M'Cay's Hill. (link)West Australian troops posing on the Pyramid at Giza. (link)Boats that dropped off the last battalion of ANZAC troops for the landings on April 25 1915. (link)The ANZAC troops on the beach. (link)ANZAC troops on the beach, notice how thin the beach is and how steep the cliff is. (link)Painting of the Battle of the Nek. (link)Painting of the Battle of Long Pine. (link)Current Lone Pine site. (link)Maori carvings a long way from home. (link)