Col Tony Daniell - Telegraph The following night, an all-out attempt to bridge the river was made. Enemy shelling and mortaring were intense. Bulldozers came under fire; lorries carrying bridging equipment went up in flames; hay ricks were set ablaze; and the Germans, by firing flares behind the toiling Sappers, silhouetted them against the mist and made them a target for snipers. With 20ft to go, the leading Allied bulldozer, which was riddled with bullets, broke down. A tank was used to haul the stricken machine out of the way and it pushed the remainder of the bridge into place. Despite some well-aimed German mortar-rounds, by 5am the bridge was open and a squadron of tanks of the 17th/21st Lancers was across. Daniell was awarded an Immediate MC. Anthony Piers De Tabley Daniell was born at Cobham, Surrey, on June 19 1913 but from 1916 his family home was a small estate on Anglesey. He was educated at Gresham's School, Holt, before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Engineering. He worked for Wilson Lovatt & Sons of Wolverhampton, civil engineers and, after joining the TA, was commissioned. In early 1940 he was in France with the BEF and for his part in the evacuation from Dunkirk he was mentioned in despatches. In March 1943 Daniell went to North Africa with 59 FC RE and, that autumn, after the Italian campaign, he was demobilised and returned to Wilson Lovatt; he became a director of the company in 1962. He rejoined the TA and, in 1951, as a lieutenant-colonel, took command of his old pre-war unit, now 125 Corps Engineer Regiment (TA). After retiring in 1960, he was appointed OBE and was then employed as a fund-raiser by the Iron Bridge Gorge Museum Trust at Coalbrookdale, Shropshire. Over the next six years he raised £1 million. Aged 78, he retired from the museum and raised funds for Nature Conservation in Shropshire and also set up a charitable trust for handicapped young people. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of Staffordshire in 1962. He published (1990) Mediterranean Safari, March 1943 to October 1944. Tony Daniell married, in 1947, Noreen Cruickshank, who survives him. A son predeceased him. Colonel Tony Daniell, born June 19 1913, died November 17 2011