Roy Montague Smith, Leonard Hyatt, Malcolm Elliott and others, 43RM Cdo

43RM Commandos with Partisans

Standing: 1. Cpl. Roy Montague Smith was in Sugar section of 'A' troop, and was later killed in action; 2 - 3: n/k; 4. Mne. Leonard Hyatt.

Front row: Partisan girl; Malcolm Elliott; Partisan girl.

Photo courtesy of his nephew Roy Smith.

Another copy of this photo from the collection of Malcolm Elliott, 43RM Cdo. has an annotation as follows: "April/44. Some of the lads, Officer in the Partisan, and two Partisan girls taken at Vis Town on the island Otok Vis, Yugoslavia"
Sharon Cotter advises that the man seated at the front with the forage cap is in fact her grandfather Malcolm Elliott

In Memory of PLY/X106635 Corporal Roy Montague Smith
No. 43RM Commando, Royal Marines.
who died on the 18th April 1945 aged 23
Remembered with honour at Ravenna War Cemetery