The 9th Company of the Régiment de marche du Tchad, part of the French 2nd Armored Division was nicknamed La Nueve. The company consisted of 160 men under French command, 146 of whom were Spanish repu
Regimental insignia
Amado Granell in 1936.
Units of the 2nd Armored Division parade along the Champs-Élysées after the Liberation of Paris
Plaque in commemoration of the Spanish soldiers of La Nueve, affixed to the annexe building of the Hôtel de Ville, on the corner of Quai de l'Hôtel de Ville and Rue de Lobau (4th Arrondissement).
The 501e Régiment de chars de combat 501e RCC in French, is an armoured tank unit of the French Army created on 13 May 1918, and which took part in World War I, World War II the Russian Civil War, the