Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan kammala karatunsa daga makarantun soja a Masar da Burtaniya a 1939, Ismail ya jagoranci wani rukunin Masar a yakin duniya na biyu kusa da iyakar Masar da Libya da Italiya ta mamaye, kuma an tura shi zuwa Arish da Rafah a cikin Yakin Larabawa-Isra'ila
a cikin 1948-49.