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Arm badge in cloth for Officers. 40th Division. National Army. Spanish Civil War. Hand-embroidered 60 x 68 mm. The 40th Division was a unit of the Francoist Army that fought in the Spanish Civil War, during which it took part in the battles of Catalonia and Valsequillo. The unit was created in May 1938,1 within the Moroccan Army Corps, with infantry colonel Saturnino González Badía as commander and Staff Commander Luis de Lamo Peris as Chief of Staff.12 The unit completed its organizational phase around 14 May.2 A few days later, on the 22nd, it relieved the 150th Division in the Segre River sector3 that ran from the confluence of the Segre and Ebro rivers to Alfarrás.4
It did not take part in the battles of Balaguer or the Ebro, remaining in reserve.
At the end of 1938 the unit took part in the Catalonia offensive alongside the rest of the Moroccan Army Corps. In January 1939, after the start of the Battle of Valsequillo-Peñarroya, the unit was sent as reinforcements to the Extremadura front,54 taking part in the bloody fighting that took place and the subsequent Francoist counteroffensive. On 19 January the forces of the 40th Division recaptured the Sierra del Risco6 and later continued to press into the pocket, taking Los Blázquez after overcoming the resistance of the Republican 61st Division.7
The division would be dissolved after the end of the conflict.
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