The 2nd Division () was a division of the

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in the

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. 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

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. During the Segovia Offensive it carried out a diversionary attack in the Alto del León led by Lt. Colonel

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

Order of Battle

Leaders

;Commanders * Engineering Lt. Colonel Domingo Moriones; * Infantry Colonel Enrique Navarro Abuja; * Infantry Lt. Colonel Luis Barceló Jover; * Militia Major José Suárez Montero; * Militia Major Casto Losada Quiroga; ;Commissar * José Delgado Prieto, member of the

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(PSOE); ;Chief of Staff *Engineering Captain Juan Manzano Porqueres;

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