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Urgent 56 years since the departure of the Egyptian national monk. "Golden General"

Today, Sunday, the 56th anniversary of the martyrdom of the martyr hero, the Golden General, Lieutenant General Abdel Moneim Riad, former Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces, whose pure spirit overflowed on the morning of March 9, 1969, when he fell as a martyr between his soldiers while he was on the confrontation lines to see himself as the results of the day before the war of attrition and to give his directives and to be the middle Soldiers. The leader between his soldiers, striking the example and role models in the courageous steadfast leadership, as the enemy’s fire suddenly poured into the area where he was standing among his soldiers and the fire continued about an hour and a half until one of the artillery shots exploded near the hole from which he was leading the battle and as a result of the fatal shrapnel and the emptying of the air, the commander was martyred in his soldiers from his wounds, after 32 years he spent in serving his homeland To conclude a life full of the championships and achievements that this leader has achieved at the military level that made the professors of the Supreme Academy of the Soviet Union they call the Golden General.

His birth and upbringing & nbsp;

& nbsp; Abdel -Moneim Riad was born on the twenty -second of October 1919 in the village of & quot; Sprbay & quot; One of the villages of the city of Tanta in Gharbia Governorate, where he returns to ancient origins, his father, was an officer in the Egyptian army, and reached the rank of & quot; & quot; Current Colonel & quot; Mohamed Riad, who is one of the old Egyptian military, so the son was famous for the discipline of military originality since his early childhood.

& nbsp; On his work, he used to go to the book and memorize parts of the Qur’an and he obtained the primary certificate in 1931 from the Al -Raml School in Alexandria and his father died while he was still twelve years old.

& nbsp; His goal was determined and he had other interests in sports, scouts and rhetoric, and his love for leadership and his ability to contain his colleagues. His rights and the rights of his colleagues with all the literature, courage and dignity, and the hero martyr did not marry and remained a monk on the front and was only satisfied with the Egyptian land until it is liberated and his phrase in this regard was that the armed forces are his family and all his life.

His military life. The link and coordination between it and the leadership of the field in Palestine, and granted the golden wall for his military capabilities that appeared at the time. Alexandria. On April 9, 1958, he traveled in an educational mission to the Soviet Union to complete a tactical tactical course in the Supreme Military Academy, and completed it in 1959 with a grace of excellence and he was called there with & quot; Golden General & quot; & nbsp;

and in 1960 after his return he held the position of Chief of Artillery Arms, and in 1961 he was appointed Deputy Chief of Operations Division headed by the Armed Forces War and assigned to him The position of Air Force Air Force Command adviser. In May 1967, after King Hussein came to Cairo to sign the joint defense agreement, the team appointed the commander of the advanced command center in Amman, and he reached it on the first of June 1967 with a small staff from the Arab officers to establish the command center and when the 1967 war broke out, the team appointed the Commander of the Jordanian Front. The new armed forces, Lieutenant General Mohamed Fawzi, have rebuilding and organizing them. Israeli warships during the years 1967 and 1968 and the destruction of 60% of the Barlev line fortifications, which turned from a defensive line to mere early warning. & Nbsp;

designed the plan & quot; 200 & quot; War that was the origin of the plan & quot; Granite & quot; Which was then developed to become the operations plan in the October War under the name & quot; Badr & quot; & nbsp;

The last days & nbsp;

two weeks before his martyrdom asked his secretary for his pension form from officers affairs, according to which the heirs are paid a pension and a three -month grant in addition to the funeral expenses, where he remembered that he did not fill this form in his military file and of course surprising was held tongue His Secretary.

& nbsp; The officer usually fills this form as soon as it is installed in the rank of lieutenant in the armed forces .. What is the most generous of the Golden General?

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