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Lawrence's Pocket Diary, July-October 1918
Source: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, 1926, Appendix II
Youth| 1914| 1915| 1916| 1917| 1918| 1919| 1920| 1921| 1922| 1923| 1924| 1925| 1926| 1927| 1928| 1929| 1930| 1931| 1932| 1933| 1934| 1935
| July 1918 | 8 | Aba el Lissan | 16 | Mezerib | |
| 1 | In Mansurah | 11 | Jefer | 17 | Nasib |
| 3 | Wejh | 12 | Um Kharug | 18 | Umtaiye |
| 4 | In Mansurah | 13 | Amri, etc | 19 | Ifdein |
| 6 | Cairo | 15 | Bair | 20 | Azrak |
| 8 | Alexandria | 17 | El Hadi | 21 | Ramleh |
| 9 | Cairo | 18 | Wadi Ghadaf | 22 | Um el Surab |
| 11 | Palestine | 19 | El Umdeisisat | 24 | Umtaiye |
| 13 | Cairo | 20 | Muaggar | 25 | Nueime |
| 26 | In Borulos | 21 | Kusair el Amr | 26 | Sheikh Miskin |
| 28 | Akaba | 22 | Azrak | 27 | Sheikh Saad |
| 29 | Aba el Lissan | 23 | Ammari | 28 | Deraa |
| 31 | Akaba | 24 | Um Kharug | 30 | Kiswe |
| August 1918 | 25 | Thlaithukhwat | October 1918 | ||
| 1 | Akaba | 26 | Aba el Lissan | 1 | Damascus |
| 2 | Wadi Itm | September 1918 | 4 | Kuneitra | |
| 3 | Wadi Nejd | 1 | Aba el Lissan | 5 | Sebaste |
| 4 | Rumm | 5 | Bair | 6 | Ramleh |
| 5 | Akaba | 6 | Azrak, etc. | 7 | Sinai |
| 6 | Aba el Heiran | 13 | Gian Khunna | 8 | Cairo |
| 7 | Akaba | 14 | Umtaiye, etc. |
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Chronology
T.E. Lawrence 1888-1935
1888 16 August: born at Tremadoc, Wales
1896-1907: City of Oxford High School for Boys
1907-9: Jesus College, Oxford, B.A., 1st Class Hons, 1909
1910-14: Magdalen College, Oxford (Senior Demy), while working at the British Museum's excavations at Carchemish
1915-16: Military Intelligence Dept, Cairo
1916-18: Liaison Officer with the Arab Revolt
1919: Attended the Paris Peace Conference
1919-22: wrote Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1921-2: Adviser on Arab Affairs to Winston Churchill at the Colonial Office
1922 August: Enlisted in the Ranks of the RAF
1923 January: discharged from the RAF
1923 March: enlisted in the Tank Corps
1923: translated a French novel, The Forest Giant
1924-6: prepared the subscribers' abridgement of Seven Pillars of Wisdom
1927-8: stationed at Karachi, then Miranshah
1927 March: Revolt in the Desert, an abridgement of Seven Pillars, published
1928: completed The Mint, began translating Homer's Odyssey
1929-33: stationed at Plymouth
1931: started working on RAF boats
1932: his translation of the Odyssey published
1933-5: attached to MAEE, Felixstowe
1935 February: retired from the RAF
1935 19 May: died from injuries received in a motor-cycle crash on 13 May
1935 21 May: buried at Moreton, Dorset