T. E. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence was born in 1888 in Wales, the illegitimate son of an Anglo-Irishman, who became a baronet in 1914, and of his daughters' governess, something he knew or suspected from childhood. An archaeologist in Syria before the war, he entered the intelligence service in Cairo and was attached in 1916 to the Arab Revolt. He then refused decorations and enlisted under assumed names as a simple soldier, in the air force and then in the tank corps before returning to the air force, and died in 1935, aged forty-six, in a motorcycle accident.

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• NarrativeSeven Pillars of WisdomT. E. Lawrence · 1926LiteraturePublic domain