Fernando Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja to be amputated without anaesthesia due to the scarcity of resources available at their position and he succumbed shortly after to gangrene. For his actions in battle, Primo de Rivera was commended for the Laureate Cross of Saint Ferdinand, awarded posthumously in 1923. Fernando Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja Fernando Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja (Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) 30 July 1879 - Mount Arruit, Morocco, 5 August 1921) was a Spanish soldier, brother of the dictator Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja and uncle of Falange’s founder José Antonio Primo de Rivera. He entered the Cavalry School in
Fernando Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja of the river Igan resulted in the loss of most of the horses, the soldiers having to continue charging on foot. In the end, the Cavalry Hunter Regiment of Alcántara lost 28 of its 32 officers and 523 of its 685 troops in the battle. Primo de Rivera was killed during the siege of Monte-Arruit on the 6th of August having been wounded by an enemy grenade shell while observing the cannon fire from the parapet.(Rafael Fernández López, De instituto psiquiátrico "La milagrosa" a base Primo de Rivera, "Vulgo Manicomnio" 1926-2007, Madrid: Cultiva Libros, 2014, 173, 9788416073825) His arm had