Many Unknown Soldier Memorials for Egyptian and Arab soldiers were constructed inside and outside Egypt. The most famous is the one in Cairo. The Unknown Soldier Memorial in Cairo is a pyramid-shaped monument in Nasr City. Its construction was ordered by president Anwar Sadat in 1974 in honour of Egyptians and Arabs who lost their lives in the 1973 October War. It was inaugurated in October 1975. The site was also chosen for the president's tomb after his assassination in October 1981.
Cairo Memorial
The monument is made of concrete and resembles a hollow pyramid, with a height of 25 meters, and a base width of 14.3 meters. The four pillars are 1.9 meters thick, and are inscribed with 71 symbolic names. At the center of the base is a solid basalt cube representing the soldier's tomb. The memorial is open to visitors at all times. It was designed by the artist Sami Rafi, a Professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo who obtained his PhD from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Vienna. A small memorial to the martyrs of 1973 war is present in the 6th of October Panorama.
The Port Said Martyrs Memorial commemorates the martyrs of Port Said in the battles of the tripartite aggression during the Suez Crisis in 1956. It exists in Al-Sharq District, Port Said.
An unknown soldier memorial for Egyptian soldiers of the 1948 war stands at Ad Halom, also known as "the Ad Halom commemoration wall". The Ad Halom memorial marks the northernmost point in Israel to which the Egyptian army advanced during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. It was erected under the terms of the 1979 Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. The inscriptions on the four edges are in Hebrew, Arabic, English and hieroglyphics.
Another monument erected under the terms of the 1979 peace treaty stands near Fort Yoav in Southern Israel. The Egyptians had requested to place a memorial for soldiers fallen in Negba as one had been placed to commemorate the Israeli fallen. Due to local opposition, the monument was placed in nearby Sde Yoav. It is a monument to four Egyptian soldiers – two colonels, a sergeant and a private. Like its Ad Halom counterpart, it too is inscribed in Hebrew, Arabic, English and hieroglyphics.
Beit Nuba Egyptians soldiers memorial, Ramallah; West Bank
A monument was erected in the village of Beit Nuba west the city of Ramallah in the West Bank in memory of 10 Egyptian soldiers bravery during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. It is dedicated to the Egyptian soldiers who refused to surrender the area to Jordan, then the Israeli forces bomb them causing their death. The monument was built on July 17, 2012 as a joint effort between the Egyptian embassy and the Fatah party. Israeli forces entered Beit Nuba on 12 December 2012 and notified the villagers that the monument and buildings would be demolished. The Egyptian Minister of Foreign affairs made contacts with the Egyptian ambassador in the Palestinian territories, to stop the Israeli decision to demolish the Beit Nuba monument of the Egyptian soldiers. Palestinians organized a march and sit-in to protest the decision to demolish the monument.
The Monument for Egyptians Martyrs at Sana'a, Yemen was erected for the memory of the over 20,000 Egyptian soldiers that died during the North Yemen Civil War in 1965.
