Biography
Delgado Delgado, Carmelo b. April 20, 1913, Guayama, Puerto Rico; Puerto Rican, POW; Father Eladio Delgado Berríos, mother Flora Delgado González, two brothers Eladio and Rafael; Graduated from the University of Puerto Rico and went to Spain in 1935 to attend the University of Madrid as a law student; Student; Served with a student Militia group; Later with the Republican Popular Army, possibly the 3rd Mixed Brigade; Captured in University City, Madrid; Tried, convicted, and executed by firing squad on April 10, 1937, Valladolid, Spain.
Source: El Mundo, July 25, 1937 and La Gran Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico, Toma 2, April 29, 1985. Carl Geiser, "The First American National Captured," The Volunteer, Vol. 7, No. 2; José Alejandro Ortiz Carrión and Teresita Torres Rivera, Voluntarios de la Libertad, Puertorriqueños en Defensa de la República Española 1936-1939. Code A
Source: El Mundo, July 25, 1937 and La Gran Enciclopedia de Puerto Rico, Toma 2, April 29, 1985. Carl Geiser, "The First American National Captured," The Volunteer, Vol. 7, No. 2; José Alejandro Ortiz Carrión and Teresita Torres Rivera, Voluntarios de la Libertad, Puertorriqueños en Defensa de la República Española 1936-1939. Code A