Gaspar Gómez de la Serna

Gaspar Gómez de la Serna y Pérez (1760–1808) was a Spanish military commander.

In 1792, La Serna enlisted as a second-lieutenant in the Soria Regiment of Provincial Militias, seeing action in Navarra during the War of the Pyrenees.

He saw action at San Cugat on 12 October 1808[2] and, the following November, he was given command of the 3rd Division and promoted to brigadier.

Evacuated to Tarragona, La Serna died of his wounds the following day.

[1] His son, Pedro Gómez de la Serna, born in Mahón, went on to become a noted Spanish jurist and politician,[3] minister of the Interior of Baldomero Espartero's last cabinet, and with whom he went into exile to London, and became president of the Supreme Court in 1869.