== Early life == El Gamasy was born on 9 September 1921 in Batanoon, Monufia Governorate, Egypt. He was one of two brothers and five sisters. After high school, El Gamassy joined the Egyptian Military Academy and was commissioned in 1941 in an infantry regiment. As a Major, he was GSO-II of an infantry battallion during the 1948 War. == October Wa...