The 54th Division was one of the divisions of the People's Army of the Republic that were organized during the Spanish Civil War on the basis of the Mixed Brigades. It came to operate on the Levante front.
History
During 1937, on the Northern Front there had already been a division that used this numbering.
In the spring of 1938, within the IX Army Corps, a division was created that was numbered "54". Its first commander-in-chief was Lieutenant Colonel Martín Calvo Calvo. It was made up of the newly created 180th, 181st and 182nd mixed brigades. Some time later it was sent to the Levante front, where it was included in the XIII Army Corps. It participated in the fighting in the Levante, resisting the nationalist offensive against Valencia. During the operations, the unit had an outstanding performance, coming to be congratulated by the republican authorities. On 11 August 1938 command of the unit passed to the anarchist Francisco Fervenza Fernández. During the rest of the war the unit remained inactive on the Levante front.
Command
- Commanders
- Martín Calvo Calvo;
- Francisco Fervenza Fernández;
- Commissars
- Eleuterio Dorado Lanza, of the IR;
- Chiefs of Staff
- José García Benedito;
- Gonzalo Castelló Gómez-Trevijano;
Organization
Notes
References
Bibliography
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- Engel, Carlos (1999). Historia de las Brigadas Mixtas del Ejército Popular de la República. Madrid: Almena. 84-922644-7-0.
- Martínez Bande, José Manuel (1981). La batalla de Pozoblanco y el cierre de la bolsa de Mérida. Madrid: Editorial San Martín.
- Navarro, Ramón Juan (2010). Resistir es vencer. El frente de Viver en la Guerra Civil española. Lulu.com. ISBN 978-1-4466-9664-4.
- Solla Gutiérrez, Miguel Ángel (2010). La República sitiada. Trece meses de Guerra Civil en Cantabria. Santander: Ediciones de la Universidad de Cantabria.
