Valdomiro Castilho de Lima

He participated in the Federalist Revolution of 1893 alongside loyalist forces, and in 1898, he joined the military school of Red Beach in Rio de Janeiro.

Taking command of the 3rd Infantry Regiment in Red Beach, he arrived to quell the first tenentistas of the 1920 uprisings.

In the Brazilian Revolution of 1930, he held a command post in the revolutionary troops who invaded the headquarters of the 3rd military region in Porto Alegre.

In 1935, he participated in a group of observers sent by Brazil to watch the Second Italo-Ethiopian War, where he was impressed by the CV-33 Italian tankettes.

In 1936, he assumed command of the 1st military region but was removed from this post in June 1937 due to political divergence with General Góes Monteiro.