Tod Sweeney, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Recipient of the Military Cross
Date of Birth: 01-Jun-1919
Place of Birth: Blyth, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 04-Jun-2001
Profession: military officer
Nationality: United Kingdom
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Tod Sweeney
- Colonel Henry John Sweeney MC (1 June 1919 – 4 June 2001), known as Tod Sweeney, was an officer of the British Army.
- During the Second World War he was a platoon commander in the coup de main operation, by gliderborne troops of the 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry (the 52nd), on D-Day, 6 June 1944, tasked to seize Horsa Bridge and Pegasus Bridge before the main assault on the Normandy beaches began.
- The following day he was awarded the Military Cross for rescuing a wounded member of his platoon while under heavy fire near Escoville.
- Sweeney commanded the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) at Penang from April 1962 to January 1964; during the Brunei Revolt and Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation.
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