Now, over 90 years later, according to Friends of the Swedish Spanish Volunteers, remains of people who participated in the battles of the Battle of the Ebro in 1938 have been found in a mass grave in La Bisbal de Montsant in northeastern Spain. The exact number of remains in the mass grave has not been disclosed, and the specific circumstances of the discovery, including who made it, remain unclear. Around 50,000 volunteers traveled to Spain to fight against the fascists after the civil war broke out in 1936.
There is no exact number on how many of the volunteers were Swedish, but they are believed to have been around 500. These international volunteers, often part of the International Brigades, joined the Republican side in a war that prefigured World War II. Now, Friends of the Swedish Spanish Volunteers want to get in touch with relatives of the three named fallen men, from Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Oskarshamn, among other things for possible identification.
The identities of these three men have not been publicly confirmed. The timeline for the identification process and potential repatriation of the remains is unknown, as is the response or involvement of Spanish authorities in the discovery and identification efforts.