Reginald Pinney
... that Major-General Sir Reginald Pinney was the subject of Siegfried Sassoon's 1917 poem The General, as the "cheery old card" who smiled to his men as they "slogged up to Arras"?
... that Major-General Sir <b id="mwA6g"><a href="./Reginald_Pinney" id="mwA6k" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Reginald Pinney">Reginald Pinney</a></b> <i id="mwA6o">(pictured)</i> was the subject of <a href="./Siegfried_Sassoon" id="mwA6s" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Siegfried Sassoon">Siegfried Sassoon</a>'s 1917 poem <i id="mwA6w">The General</i>, as the "cheery old card" who smiled to his men as they "slogged up to <a href="./Battle_of_Arras_(1917)" id="mwA60" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Battle of Arras (1917)">Arras</a>"?