Reginald Pinney
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title:
Reginald Pinney
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Major-General Sir Reginald John Pinney was a British Army officer who served as a divisional commander during the First World War. While commanding a division at the Battle of Arras in 1917, he was immortalised as the "cheery old card" of Siegfried Sassoon's poem "The General". Pinney served in South Africa during the Boer War with the Royal Fusiliers, and at the outbreak of the First World War was given command of a brigade sent to reinforce the Western Front in November 1914. He led it in the
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British Army general
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reginald_Pinney
date created:
2010-09-17T16:23:49Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T07:38:22Z
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