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Born | 20 May 1929 Mansoura, Egypt | |||||||||||
Died | 14 October 1973 Suez Canal, Egypt | (aged 44)|||||||||||
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Sport | Sports shooting | |||||||||||
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Ahmed Hamdi (Arabic: أحمد حمدي; 20 May 1929 – 14 October 1973) was an Egyptian engineer and a general of the 3rd Army of Egypt during the Yom Kippur War. He was killed while crossing the Suez Canal with his soldiers and was awarded the Sinai star posthumously.[1][2]