Post World War II
In 1946 Col. Sweeney was appointed instructor at the Infantry Battle School near Haifa. He served as adjutant of the 1st Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, 43rd and 52nd in the Suez Canal Zone from 1951 to 1953. He commanded the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry guard of honour at the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953. The senior warrant officer of the guard of honour was RSM, later Major John Stevenson MBE DCM.
He served in Cyprus as a company commander from 1956 to 1959 and was mentioned in dispatches. He was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel in 1962. Sweeney commanded the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) at Penang from April 1962 to January 1964. The regiment was deployed to Brunei in December 1962 following an Indonesia backed uprising. He was mentioned in dispatches. He commanded the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) in Borneo during the confrontation with Indonesia and was again mentioned in dispatches.
On 1 January 1966 the 1st Green Jackets (43rd and 52nd) became the 1st Battalion, The Royal Green Jackets. He was Defence Advisor to the U.K. Mission to the United Nations in New York from 1966 to 1969. He then became Head of Public Relations HQ BAOR, Germany. He was Deputy Commandant of the School of Infantry from 1971 to 1974.
Sweeney retired from the Army in 1974. He was Director General of the Battersea Dogs Home from 1974 to 1988. He was the subject of a This is Your Life programme presented by Eamonn Andrews in 1985. Sweeney was Chairman of the 43rd & 52nd Old Comrades Association. In retirement he lived in Warwickshire and later in Shepton Mallet, Somerset.
He married Geraldine Follett in 1942 with whom he was to have two sons and three daughters.
Colonel Tod Sweeney MC died on 4 June 2001.
A memorial service was later held for Colonel Tod Sweeney at Douai Abbey, Woolhampton, Berkshire.
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