Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37254/supplement/4469. Temporary Major Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau Lassen (234907), General List, attached Special Boat Service, No. 1 S.A.S. Regiment. On 8th April 1945 at Lake Comacchio, Italy, Major Lassen was ordered to take a patrol and raid the north shore of the lake, causing as many casualties and as much confusion as possible to give the impression of a major landing. In the face of overwhelming enemy numbers he fulfilled his mission, three positions being wiped out, and when he was mortally wounded he refused to be evacuated so that the withdrawal should not be impeded and his men's lives endangered. MILITARY CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37476/pages/1049. BAR AND SECOND BAR TO MILITARY CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37476/pages/1048.
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Gazette Information: VICTORIA CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37254/supplement/4469. Temporary Major Anders Frederik Emil Victor Schau Lassen (234907), General List, attached Special Boat Service, No. 1 S.A.S. Regiment. On 8th April 1945 at Lake Comacchio, Italy, Major Lassen was ordered to take a patrol and raid the north shore of the lake, causing as many casualties and as much confusion as possible to give the impression of a major landing. In the face of overwhelming enemy numbers he fulfilled his mission, three positions being wiped out, and when he was mortally wounded he refused to be evacuated so that the withdrawal should not be impeded and his men's lives endangered. MILITARY CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37476/pages/1049. BAR AND SECOND BAR TO MILITARY CROSS,: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37476/pages/1048.