Anders Lassen
(1920-1945)
Recipient of the Victoria Cross
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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.
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22 September 1920 Copenhagen, Denmark
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9 April 1945 (aged 24) Comacchio, Italy
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Axel Freiherr von dem Bussche-Streithorst · Family Member · 1919-1993 · German officer and member of the German Resistance in Second World War
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