Spain. Officer’s arm badge of the 40th Division of the Moroccan Army Corps.

Hand-embroidered insignia of the National Army of the Spanish Civil War.

The 40th Division was a unit of the Francoist Army that fought in the Spanish Civil War, during which it would take part in the battles of Catalonia and Valsequillo. The unit was created in May 1938, within the Moroccan Army Corps, with infantry colonel Saturnino González Badía as commander and Staff Commander Luis de Lamo Peris as Chief of Staff.

The unit completed its organisation phase around 14 May. A few days later, on the 22nd, it went on to relieve the 150th Division in the sector of the Segre River, which ran from the confluence of the Segre and Ebro rivers to Alfarrás. 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 beginning of the Battle of Valsequillo-Peñarroya, the unit was sent as reinforcements to the Extremadura front, taking part in the bloody fighting that took place and the subsequent Francoist counteroffensive. On January 19, the forces of the 40th Division recaptured the Sierra del Risco and would later continue to press into the pocket, taking Los Blázquez after overcoming the resistance of the Republican 61st Division.

The division would be dissolved after the end of the war.

Measures 7 x 5,9 cm