T. E. Lawrence
Colonel T.E. Lawrence (in full Thomas Edward Lawrence), better known in history as Lawrence of Arabia (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935), was a British Army officer, explorer, scholar, writer, military strategist and linguist. He was born in Tremadog, Caernarfonshire, Wales. He studied history at University of Oxford. He joined the Army by taking part in the Officers' Training Corps at Oxford. He is best known for having helped the Arabs organize themselves against the Turks during the First World War.
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| Birth name | Thomas Edward Lawrence |
| Nickname | Lawrence of Arabia, El Aurens |
| Born | 16 August 1888 Tremadog, Caernarfonshire, Wales, United Kingdom |
| Died | 19 May 1935 (aged 46) Bovington Camp, Dorset, England, United Kingdom |
| Buried at | St Nicholas, Moreton, Dorset |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom Arab Revolt Kingdom of Hejaz |
| Service/branch |  British Army Royal Air Force |
| Years of service | 1914–18 1923–35 |
| Rank | Colonel and Aircraftman |
His memoirs of the time spent with the Arabs, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom (1926), is a well-known work of literature. He died in 1935 in a motorcycle accident in Dorset.
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Lawrence's birthplace, Gorphwysfa, Tremadog, Carnarvonshire, Wales
The Lawrence family lived at 2 Polstead Road, Oxford from 1896 to 1921
Leonard Woolley (left) and Lawrence in their excavation house at Carchemish, c. 1912
Early Hittite carving found by Lawrence (centre) and Leonard Woolley (right) in Carchemish
Lawrence at Aqaba, 1917
Map presented by Lawrence to the Eastern Committee of the War Cabinet in November 1918
Emir Faisal's party at Versailles, during the Paris Peace Conference of 1919; left to right: Rustum Haidar, Nuri al-Said, Prince Faisal (front), Captain Pisani (rear), Lawrence, Faisal's servant (name unknown), Captain Hassan Khadri
Lawrence, Emir Abdullah, Air Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond, Sir Wyndham Deedes, and others in Jerusalem
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