Bidspirit auction | Col Henry Tod Sweeney signed

Col Henry Tod Sweeney signed Piper Bill Millin D-day Pegasus Bridge cover. He captured Mjr Hans Schmidt who commanded the bridge. Scarce only 50 issued. 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 glider borne 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.