Deletion of Tod Sweeney

Comment: Clearly meets the |general notability guideline
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG)

Comment: This one is less clear cut I agree, and many significant details of his life do appear to be known, albeit uncited. The subject was another junior officer (later a Colonel though) awarded the Military Cross with a large amount of passing coverage in |reliable sources. True he held a number of semi-important but non-notable positions during his later military service (Defence Advisor to the U.K. Mission to the United Nations, Head of Public Relations HQ BAOR, Deputy Commandant of the School of Infantry). I'm not really swayed by the argument that being the Director General of Battersea Dogs Home or appearing on This is Your Life adds any notability though, even if the former seems a worthy cause. IMO this is also a case of coverage about a single event in a large number of |reliable sources not adding up to "signficant coverage" and therefore a lack of notability under the 
Stance: delete
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Reliable sources (WP:RS||WP:RS||WP:GNG)

Comment: Again  it might be argued that his role in Operation Deadstick is , but again it is well documented in books and his life after the army (Director General of Battersea Dogs Home) only serves to increase his notability. He was on This Is Your Life (UK TV series)|This is your life after all
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons (WP:oneevent)

Comment: Please see my argument at rticles_for_deletion/Sandy_Smith_(British_Army_officer). - Dank
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Attribution (WP:A)

Comment: The sources cited clearly demonstrate the subject meets the |general notability guideline. Claims that coverage about a single event cannot be "significant coverage" are not supported by the definition of "significant coverage" given in 
Stance: keep
Cited policy: Wikipedia:Notability (WP:GNG||WP:N)