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This set of medals belonged to F. V. A., a veteran of Africa, a Falangist during the Second Republic, a captive during the entire Spanish Civil War and a volunteer in the Blue Division.
F. V. A. entered the Quartermaster Academy in 1922 and participated in the Africa Campaign for which he was awarded the Moroccan Military Medal with a Tetuan bar in 1929 and the Moroccan Peace Medal.
In 1931, with the rank of Quartermaster Lieutenant, he obtained the title of Gymnastics Teacher. In 1934 he joined the Spanish Falange (for which he won the Falange Old Guard Medal with First Line bar) and participated in the suffocation of the October Revolution of that same year, thus earning the Military Merit Cross with Distinctive Red (with their initials and date inscribed).
In January 1936 he was wounded while participating in the altercations produced in the Gran Price as a result of a meeting of the Esquerra Republicana.
On July 19, 1936 he was captured in Barcelona when the coup d’état of the rebels failed, for which he would spend the entire Civil War in prison until January 26, 1939, when Franco’s troops entered Barcelona. He was awarded with the Wound medal («Sufrimientos por la Patria») with the orange Prisoner of War ribbon and dated bar.
Between 1941 and 1943 he participated in the Spanish Volunteer Division, better known as the Blue Division. We do not know details of his time in Russia nor are the possible medals won in that context preserved, although we do have evidence of his participation due to uniform that he owned.
In later years he will participate in the 9th Brigade of Relief Troops and will join the Red Cross, reaching Colonel rank.
The set includes:
All the decorations of this person are included in this lot but we have other pieces of his uniform that we sell separately.
His name is erased in the photographs, but it appears in the decorations
