About Anders Lassen
Major Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau Lassen, was a Danish military officer who was the only non-Commonwealth recipient of the Victoria Cross during the Second World War. Serving in the British Army, he was posthumously awarded the award for his actions during Operation Roast on 8 April 1945 at Lake Comacchio in Italy in the final weeks of the Italian campaign. Lassen was a first cousin of Axel von dem Bussche, a German Resistance member who unsuccessfully tried to kill Adolf Hitler in 1943. Lassen, who was 24 years old, was serving as a temporary major in the British Special Boat Section when he was awarded the Victoria Cross. Major Lassen himself then attacked with grenades, and annihilated the first position containing four Germans and two machineguns.
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