2nd Division (Spain)

This article is about the Spanish Republican military unit. For other formations, see 2nd Division.

2nd Division 2.ª División
Military flag of the Popular Army
Active	1936–1939
Country	Spanish Republic
Branch	Spanish Republican Army
Type	Infantry division
Role	Home Defence
Part of	1st Army Corps (1936 - 1939)
Engagements	Spanish Civil War
Commanders
Notable commanders	Luis Barceló Jover

Gun emplacement in the Alto del León from the time of the Spanish Civil War.

The 2nd Division (Spanish: 2.ª División)[1] was a division of the Spanish Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War.

This unit took part in the Segovia Offensive in June 1937.

History

The Second Division was established on 31 December 1936 with the militia forces that had been operating in the mountainous area north of Madrid. During the Segovia Offensive it carried out a diversionary attack in the Alto del León led by Lt. Colonel Luis Barceló.[2]

During the rest of the war it stayed in the same relatively inactive mountain front and was finally disbanded on 27 March 1939.[1]

Order of Battle

Date	Army Corps	Mixed Brigades	Battlefront
December 1936	1st Army Corps	29th, 27th and 31st	Center
December 1937	1st Army Corps	29th, 27th and 31st	Center
April 1938	1st Army Corps	29th, 27th and 34th	Center

Leaders

Commanders

• Engineering Lt. Colonel Domingo Moriones;[3]
• Infantry Colonel Enrique Navarro Abuja;[4]
• Infantry Lt. Colonel Luis Barceló Jover;[5]
• Militia Major José Suárez Montero;[6]
• Militia Major Casto Losada Quiroga;

Commissar

• José Delgado Prieto, member of the Spanish Socialist Workers' Party (PSOE);[6]

Chief of Staff

• Engineering Captain Juan Manzano Porqueres;

See also

• Mixed Brigades

References

1. Engel Masoliver 1999.
2. Thomas 1976, p. 743.
3. Zaragoza 1983, p. 285.
4. Alpert 2013, p. 345.
5. Romero Salvadó 2013, p. 72.
6. Engel Masoliver 1999, p. 198.

Bibliography

• Alpert, Michael (2013). The Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-107-32857-0.
• Engel Masoliver, Carlos (1999). Historia de las Brigadas mixtas del Ejército popular de la República, 1936-1939. Madrid: Editorial Almena. ISBN 84-96170-19-5.
• Romero Salvadó, Francisco J. (2013). Historical Dictionary of the Spanish Civil War. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-8009-2.
• Thomas, Hugh (1976). Historia de la Guerra Civil Española. Barcelona: Círculo de Lectores. ISBN 84-226-0874-X.
• Zaragoza, Cristóbal (1983). Ejército Popular y Militares de la República, 1936-1939. Barcelona: Ed. Planeta.

External links

• SBHAC - El Ejército Popular
• Organización militar republicana - 1936 - La Guerra Civil Archived 5 October 2018 at the Wayback Machine