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Anders Lassen

Recipient of the Victoria Cross

Died when: 24 years 199 days (294 months)
Star Sign: Libra

 

Anders Lassen

Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau Lassen, VC, MC & Two Bars (22 September 1920 – 9 April 1945) was a highly decorated Danish soldier, who was the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the British Victoria Cross in the Second World War.

He was posthumously awarded the United Kingdom's highest gallantry award for his actions during Operation Roast on 8 April 1945 at Lake Comacchio in Italy in the final weeks of the Italian campaign.

The Danish officer was ordered to lead a raid that would give the impression that a major landing was being undertaken.

Lassen fulfilled his mission in the face of overwhelming enemy numbers by single-handedly taking out three enemy positions before being mortally wounded.

As his men's lives would be endangered in the withdrawal, he refused to be evacuated from the area.


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