Ahmed Badawi Sayyid Ahmed (Arabic: أحمد بدوي سيد أحمد) was an Egyptian

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(Mushir) and the

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of the Armed Forces.

Early life

Ahmed Badawy was born in the coastal city of

Alexandria Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...

in 1927. He studied commerce at

Alexandria University Alexandria University ( ar, جامعة الإسكندرية) is a public university in Alexandria, Egypt. It was established in 1938 as a satellite of Fouad University (the name of which was later changed to Cairo University), becoming an indepen ...

where he obtained his bachelor's degree, he then traveled to

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on a scholarship to the

M. V. Frunze Military Academy The M. V. Frunze Military Academy (russian: Военная академия имени М. В. Фрунзе), or in full the Military Order of Lenin and the October Revolution, Red Banner, Order of Suvorov Academy in the name of M. V. Frunze (rus ...

Career

He became a senior lecturer at the military academy in 1958 but then he was fired from the military service in 1967. President

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then asked him to return to military service at the same time as he became a lecturer at Ain Shams University. As a brigadier general, he commanded the 7th Infantry Division during the

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, and after the Third Army became encircled, was placed in command of the cut-off force. The isolated part of the army was made up of the 7th and 19th Infantry Divisions, plus two independent armoured brigades, on the east bank, and a mixture of units in

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city itself.Trevor Dupuy, Elusive Victory, 1978, 543. He became the commander of the Training Institute of the Armed Forces and was then promoted to become the

of the Egyptian Armed Forces. On 14 May 1980,

made him the Minister of Defence and Military Production.

Death

A few months after becoming in charge of the ministry of defence, Ahmed Badawy died, along with 13 senior officers, in a

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crash on 2 March 1981.

References

External links

* https://search.wikileaks.org/plusd/cables/1976CAIRO16857_b.html - Third Army commander Maj Gen Ahmad Badawi speaks to State Department officials, 7 December 1976. {{DEFAULTSORT:Badawy, Ahmed 1927 births 1981 deaths Field marshals of Egypt Defence Ministers of Egypt Alexandria University alumni Ain Shams University faculty Egyptian Military Academy alumni Chiefs of the General Staff (Egypt) Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1981 Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in Egypt