(1920-09-22)22 September 1920 Høvdingsgård, Mern, Denmark
Died
9 April 1945(1945-04-09) (aged 24) Lake Comacchio, Italy
Buried
Argenta Gap War Cemetery
Service/branch
British Army
Years of service
1940–1945
Rank
Major
Service number
234907
Commands held
No. 62 Commando Special Boat Service,
Special Air Service
Battles/wars
Second World War
Operation Postmaster
Operation Albumen
Raid on Santorini
Italian campaign
Operation Roast (DOW)
Awards
Victoria Cross Military Cross & Two Bars
Relations
Frederik Raben-Levetzau (maternal grandfather)
Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst (cousin)
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.[1][2]
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 by destroying 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.
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...
raid, Private AndersLassen, was the first man to board Duchessa d'Aosta. For conspicuous efficiency in getting the ship under way, Lassen was given a commission...
include: AndersLassen (1920–1945), a Danish recipient of the British Victoria Cross Christian Lassen, a Norwegian-German orientalist Clyde Everett Lassen, a...
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such as Santorini. On April 19, a group of 19 commandos under Major AndersLassen sailed from their hideout in Balisu bay, Turkey aboard two schooners...
MG 42 positions that were entrenched on the far side of the canal. AndersLassen, a Danish soldier of the SBS, was also awarded a posthumous Victoria...
Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst and his Danish wife Jenny Lassen. AndersLassen, a Danish resistance hero who fought in the British Army against...
silently killed by Danish commando AndersLassen, using the commando knife he carried. This annex comprised a corridor and six rooms wherein were five sleeping...
in the battles of Argenta Gap and Lake Comacchio. Arthur Banks GC (1923–1944) Tom Hunter (VC) (1923–1945) AndersLassen VC, MC & Two Bars (1920–1945)...
Ungentlemanly Warfare starring Henry Cavill as Gus March-Phillipps and Alan Ritchson as AndersLassen, is scheduled to premiere on 19 April 2024. Bureau Central...
March-Phillipps and was one of the first raids by AndersLassen. In the raid the entire garrison of seven was captured and returned to England as prisoners and the...
national, Major AndersLassen a patrol commander of the Special Boat Service (SBS) was killed in a subsequent fighting reconnaissance and was awarded a...
comrades in a hotel and was shot dead.: 28 The remaining four prisoners were silenced by stuffing their mouths, according to AndersLassen, with grass.: 73 ...
Hosle and died at Bærum in 2010. Birger Stuevold Lassen. "Anders Bratholm". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved May 1, 2018. "Bratholm, Anders". Store...
first raids by AndersLassen VC. In the raid, the entire garrison of 7 is abducted and returned to England as prisoners, and the radio and lighthouse are...
Denmark. Line Luplau (1823 in Mern - 1891) a Danish feminist and suffragist. AndersLassen, VC, MC & Two Bars (1920 in Høvdingsgaard estate, Mern Parish...
systems and their own orders, decorations and medals. The Victoria Cross takes precedence over all other British orders, decorations and medals and may be...
Cyclopedia: Geography, 1854, s.v. "Ferrara". Langley, Mike (1988). AndersLassen, V.C., M.C., of the S.A.S. ISBN 978-0450424922. "Comacchio, la piccola...
Another bust, designed by Svend Lindhard and placed outside the Resistance Museum, commemorates Major AndersLassen, the only Dane to have received the Victoria...
some Commonwealth countries and previous British Empire territories. It takes precedence over all other Orders, decorations and medals; it may be awarded...
(Statesman and notorious traitor, 1606–1664) Military Søren Haslund-Christensen (Major general and Danish Hofmarschall, 1989–2003) AndersLassen (Major,...
lifesaver Marie Kruse (1842–1923), pioneering schoolteacher and girls school principal AndersLassen, British Major, the only foreign soldier in the British...
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