Editing Percy Hansen (section)

===Second World War===
On 2 September 1939, the day before the war began, Hansen was posted to the 55th (West Lancashire) Infantry Division, a TA formation which he had served with before, and was made Assistant Adjutant-General & Quartermaster-General (AA&QMG). He held this post until late January 1941, when he became Deputy Assistant & Quartermaster-General (DA&QMG) with [[XII Corps (United Kingdom)|XII Corps]], then commanded by [[Lieutenant-general (United Kingdom)|Lieutenant General]] [[Andrew Thorne]]. The corps, which was commanded from late April by Lieutenant General [[Bernard Montgomery]], had responsibility for the defence of [[Kent]] in the event of a [[Operation Sea Lion|German invasion of the United Kingdom]].

Hansen continued in this role until February 1942 when he was made an Area Commander of Belfast Area, prior to becoming a Sub-District Commander, Ashford Area until serving on the staff of [[Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force]] (SHAEF). He remained in this position until the war's end in 1945, and he retired from the army in January 1946.<ref name="Officers of the British Army" />

Hansen died on 12 February 1951, at the relatively young age of sixty. He is one of only fourteen men, other than Gurkhas born in Nepal, not born as a British subject to have received the Victoria Cross.<ref name="Officers of the British Army" />