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Abdel Wahab el Beshry
Installed 29 September 1962
Term ended 10 September 1966
Predecessor Abdel Hakim Amer
Successor Shams Badran
Personal details
Nationality Egyptian

Abdel Wahab el-Beshry was one of the defense ministers of Egypt during Gamal Abdel Nasser's era. He was among the leading figures in Egypt before the 1970s. He took the commandment of the Egyptian Armed Forces on two terms. The second was after Abdel Hakim Amer's death.[1]

He served as defense minister until 10 September 1966 when he was replaced by Shams Badran in the post.[2]

References[]

  1. Previous Commanders, Go to commanders then general commander then previous commanders.
  2. Hamied Ansari (1986). Egypt: The Stalled Society. SUNY Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0-88706-183-7. http://books.google.com/books?id=DVxr9qy-g2EC&pg=PA142. Retrieved 20 October 2013. 
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