Unit Name: | 2nd Division 2.ª División |
Dates: | 1936–1939 |
Branch: | Spanish Republican Army |
Type: | Infantry division |
Role: | Home Defence |
Command Structure: | 1st Army Corps (1936 - 1939) |
Battles: | Spanish Civil War |
Notable Commanders: | Luis Barceló Jover |
The 2nd Division (Spanish; Castilian: 2.ª División) was a division of the Spanish Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War.
This unit took part in the Segovia Offensive in June 1937.
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.
During the rest of the war it stayed in the same relatively inactive mountain front and was finally disbanded on 27 March 1939.
Date | Army Corps | Mixed Brigades | Battlefront | |
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December 1936 | 1st Army Corps | |||
December 1937 | 1st Army Corps | 29th, 27th and 31st | Center | |
April 1938 | Center |