The commemoration in Komiza was attended by British Ambassador John Ramsden, Croatian presidential envoy Budimir Loncar, Croatian Navy Admiral Zdravko Kardum and a state secretary at the Croatian Defence Ministry, Mato Raboteg.
Wreaths were laid at the British cemetery on the island by the mayors of Vis and Komiza, Sime Zubcic and Tonka Ivcevic, in the presence of a group of war veterans from the United Kingdom, the British military attache in Croatia, Marc Wentworth, and the president of the Alliance of Anti-Fascist Fighters of Croatia, Ivan Fumic.
Wreaths were also laid by the monument to RAF members killed on the island.
Ambassador Ramsden said in a speech that Croatia, as an independent and sovereign state and future member of the European Union, should build its future also on the foundations of the victory of the anti-Hitler allied coalition.
Ramsden also paid his respects to partisans killed in the war by laying a wreath before the municipal authorities building and to British veterans by laying a wreath at a memorial plaque in the Komiza harbour.
The British war veterans and the British military and diplomatic delegation also met several local residents who witnessed the events in Vis when British soldiers landed on the island to help Josip Broz Tito's partisans fight the forces of the axis in 1943-5.
At the Vis Cultural Centre, they saw an exhibition prepared by the British Embassy.