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| rdfs:comment | - Major-General Sir Reginald John Pinney, KCB (2 August 1863 – 18 February 1943) 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".
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| Caption | - Pinney, photographed between 1915 and 1919
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| Title | - General Officer Commanding the 33rd Division
- General Officer Commanding the 35th Division
- Colonel of the Royal Fusiliers
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| Battles | - Second Boer War
- First World War
*Battle of Neuve Chapelle
*Battle of the Somme
*Battle of Arras
*Battle of Hazebrouck
*Hundred Days Offensive
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| Years | - 1924
- July 1915 – September 1916
- September 1916 – February 1919
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| Source | - — Siegfried Sassoon, "The General"
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| Quote | - "Good-morning; good-morning!" the General said
- "He's a cheery old card," grunted Harry to Jack
- And we're cursing his staff for incompetent swine.
- As they slogged up to Arras with rifle and pack.
- But he did for them both by his plan of attack.
- When we met him last week on our way to the line.
- Now the soldiers he smiled at are most of 'em dead,
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| abstract | - Major-General Sir Reginald John Pinney, KCB (2 August 1863 – 18 February 1943) 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 early part of 1915, taking heavy losses at the Battle of Neuve Chapelle. That September he was given command of the 35th Division, a New Army division of "bantam" soldiers, which first saw action at the Battle of the Somme; after three months in action, he was exchanged with the commander of the 33rd Division. He commanded the 33rd at Arras in 1917, with mixed results, and through the Spring Offensive in 1918, where the division helped stabilise the defensive line after the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps was routed. After the war, he retired to rural Dorset, where he served as a local justice of the peace, as High Sheriff for the county, and as a Deputy Lieutenant; he was also the ceremonial colonel of his old regiment, the Royal Fusiliers.
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