"Andy” – a portrait of Major Anders Lassen
The Dane who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross
in the Second World War.
By Mogens Kofod-Hansen, writer and journalist.
On 9th April 1945 as the day dawned on the fifth anniversary of the German occupation of Denmark – and barely a month before the liberation – Major Anders Lassen, aged 24, was shot and killed in northern Italy in an act of treachery by soldiers of a German-Ukrainian unit.
The greatest, most highly decorated and, even while he lived, the most celebrated and admired of the Danes who had volunteered for service in the Allied forces during the Second World War met his death in a courageous and self-sacrificing action during a decisive battle between the British Eighth Army and the powerful defence forces of Field Marshal von Kesselring south of the River Po.
Anders Lassen was posthumously awarded Britain’s highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross, regarded as the world’s most distinguished award for bravery on the battlefield.
On 9th April 1945 as the day dawned on the fifth anniversary of the German occupation of Denmark – and barely a month before the liberation – Major Anders Lassen, aged 24, was shot and killed in northern Italy in an act of treachery by soldiers of a German-Ukrainian unit.
The greatest, most highly decorated and, even while he lived, the most celebrated and admired of the Danes who had volunteered for service in the Allied forces during the Second World War met his death in a courageous and self-sacrificing action during a decisive battle between the British Eighth Army and the powerful defence forces of Field Marshal von Kesselring south of the River Po.
Anders Lassen was posthumously awarded Britain’s highest military decoration, the Victoria Cross, regarded as the world’s most distinguished award for bravery on the battlefield.
”ANDY” – a portrait of Major Anders Lassen
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"Andy" -a portrait
