sentences:  Featured in the war in Morocco, the coup d'état of July 1936 that led to the Civil War he was captain of the Guardia Civil in Bilbao and took command of a column to expel the rebels from the province of Álava without success.He was unusual in the Republican Army as he was Catholic, but he was also a Basque and the Basques had generally rallied to the Republic.He was a medical instructor before the war.