![]() Finally, the last chapter of the doctoral thesis tries to approach to the partnership of the war veterans during the interwar period and to the memory of those combatants reflected in monuments like the obelisk of Gustave Violet and the statue of Josep Clarà, both in Barcelona, or some memorial plaques in Bayonne or Marseille. Furthermore, the project tries to examine the political instrumentalisation on those volunteers in connection with some political movements in Spain, like Catalan nationalism, reformism and liberalism. I attempt to quantify their number in the most rigorous way from new diplomatic and military sources in Aubagne (Bouches-du-Rhône, France), to analyze their geographical origin inside Spain and ages, and to speculate on their motivations and social context thanks to the correspondence between several combatants and Joan Solé i Pla and José Subirà Puig. ![]() This PhD project tries to approach to the volunteers from Spain who fought in First World War (1914-1918) despite the official neutrality of their own country in the conflict.
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