03-31-2020, 08:11 PM
Rafael Gómez Nieto (29 January 1921 – 31 March 2020) was a Spanish soldier, veteran of the Spanish Civil War and the World War II.[1]
Born in Adra, Andalusia, he moved to Badalona, where he was called up to the "Lleva del Biberó" and participated in the Battle of the Ebro with Spanish Republican Army.[2]
After the war, he went to France where he was interned in the Saint-Cyprien camp. Four months later he was able to reach Algeria with his father, who was in the Argelés internment camp. After the invasion of North Africa by the Allies during World War II, he became part of the 9th Company[3] of the 2nd Armored Division that, made up of Spanish Republicans, was the first Allied military unit that entered Paris after its occupation by the Wehrmacht.[4]
He died on 31 March 2020 in a nursing home in Strasbourg (France), a city where he had lived since 1955, from COVID-19 during the coronavirus pandemic. He was the last living survivor of "La Nueve".[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_G%C3%B3mez_Nieto
Born in Adra, Andalusia, he moved to Badalona, where he was called up to the "Lleva del Biberó" and participated in the Battle of the Ebro with Spanish Republican Army.[2]
After the war, he went to France where he was interned in the Saint-Cyprien camp. Four months later he was able to reach Algeria with his father, who was in the Argelés internment camp. After the invasion of North Africa by the Allies during World War II, he became part of the 9th Company[3] of the 2nd Armored Division that, made up of Spanish Republicans, was the first Allied military unit that entered Paris after its occupation by the Wehrmacht.[4]
He died on 31 March 2020 in a nursing home in Strasbourg (France), a city where he had lived since 1955, from COVID-19 during the coronavirus pandemic. He was the last living survivor of "La Nueve".[5]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafael_G%C3%B3mez_Nieto
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