Miguel Fernández Tizón: "El Cartucho"
In the early 20th century in Alcalá de los Gazules, Antonio and María had five sons and a daughter. Then in July 1936 the country was torn apart by a nationalist uprising and a civil war, which inflicted tragedy on this family as on countless others. One son died at the Front in a bomb blast. One escaped to France and never returned. One was executed by firing squad. One had to hide out in the hills for years. One, Miguel, spent most of his adult life in prison - this is his story. Of the daughter, nothing is known except her name, Catalina. L-R: Miguel, Cristóbal, Francisco "Miguelillo", born in 1915, was the youngest and most daring of the brothers. He used to say he had so many narrow escapes on and off the battlefield he must have had his own guardian angel. The nickname Cartucho (rifle cartridge) was inherited from his grandfather, who as a boy had liked to hide and explode cartridges to frighten the girls. Miguel adopted it when he joined the Resistanc