SMART, Victor David Walter

Known as: 
Vic
Rank: 
Private
Unit / Base: 
3 Commando
Regiment/Corps: 
Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire Regiment
Service: 
Army
Number: 
5957109
P.O.W. number: 
26477
Victor Smart 3 Commando
Private Victor Smart, No.1 Section of No.6 Troop, was reported missing on 19 August 1942 during operations at Dieppe France, later found to be a prisoner of war. Post war member of the Commando Association from Borehamwood, Hertfordshire.
 
Sources
Casualty Lists / National Archives file WO417/52.
Prisoners of War  / National Archives file WO392/1 (Stalag 344).
Prisoners of War / National Archives file WO392/11 (BAB20).
Commando Association newsletters 84 and obituaries of newsletter 89.
Image in No.3 Cdo Gallery of names of those in No1 Section, 6 Troop, No.3 Cdo as of 19 August 1942.
[Image] No.3 Commando Gallery photos.
 
Notes
National Archives file WO 309/1008 refers to German guards ill treating British PoW's at Camp BAB 20.
 
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