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 Arm
Major Anders Lassen (right) in 1945, discussing the forthcoming Lake Comacchio raid, in which he and his men were tasked to cross impossible terrain
Major Anders Lassen's grave at Argenta Gap War Cemetery, 1 September 2015.
Miniature insignia of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog on Major Anders Lassen's gravestone at Argenta Gap War Cemetery, 1 September 2015. Text: "Gud og Kongen" - "God and the King".
Høvdingsgård is a manor house and estate located just east of Mern, Vordingborg Municipality, Denmark. The Late Neoclassical, two-storey main building is from 1852 but was widened in 1901. Anders Lass
The main building after the expansion in 1901
Hans Gustav Lillienskiold
Ernst Frederik August Bilsted for whom the new main building was constructed in 1852