Güímar: Don Sixto Pérez Alberto (1891 1981)

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He spent the first years of his life in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where he completed his Primary Studies and began his Baccalaureate. He then settled in Güímar, where he lived part of his childhood and all of his adolescence, working as a farmer, shoemaker and private teacher. He began his military career as a 2nd artilleryman and, after being promoted to corporal, he obtained the appointment of ordinary telemeterist; As a sergeant he was named preferred telemeterist and as a non-commissioned officer he became a telemeterist-telephonist.

With the jobs of brigade and artillery second lieutenant he was sub-adjutant of the Group and as a lieutenant he took a course in Topography Practices. When the Civil War broke out, he was appointed Email Marketing List censor of the Telegraph Central of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, military commander of the Paso Alto Castle and professor of the Provisional Ensigns course. After being qualified as artillery captain, he served as head of the Costa Sur Military Prison and military commander of the Paso Alto Castle; and, after his promotion to effective captain, he was head of the 1st Battery of the Costa de Tenerife. Later he went to the war fronts of Madrid, Toledo and Extremadura, where he held command of a Munitions Unit and the Artillery Park, in respective divisions, destinations in which he had an outstanding and recognized performance.



Returning to Tenerife after the end of the war, he was head of the Mobilization and Reserve Center of the Regiment, in charge of supplying the prisoners of the Paso Alto Castle, secretary and cashier of the Mixed Artillery Regiment of Tenerife. Finally, after being promoted to Artillery Commander, he received the appointments of head of the Fuerteventura Artillery Group, acting major of Santa Cruz, delegate president of the Commission for the Reincorporation of Ex-combatants and of the Non-Commissioned Officers Residence of the capital and military commander of the San Joaquín Castle. Throughout his career he obtained numerous decorations, including the Cross and Plaque of the Military Order of San Hermenegildo, and he retired at 60 years of age, 39 of them in the Army.