This skull was found in the pit during the exhumation. On the forehead you can clearly see what looks like a bullet wound, blatant evidence of his execution. Because the skeletons were disarticulated, it has proved to be impossible to determine the identity of all the bones of each person as was the case with this skull. Could this be my great-grandfather’s skull? I will never know.Photograph: Roberto Palomo
They took everything from my great-grandfather Silvestre Indias Carvajal and left us with nothing but his story, which was buried at the bottom of a 30-metre-deep well in south-west Spain for 87 years.
Silvestre worked as a municipal clerk in his small home town of Feria in Extremadura. He was given the job in recognition for his service in the war in Morocco, a conflict to which he was dispatched by lottery.
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