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T. E. Lawrence to his family
General Staff -
Intelligence Section
General Headquarters
The Force in Egypt
Cairo
24.1.16
Tomorrow is mail day, and as that is always a frantically busy one I am going to write to you before going to bed. Nothing much happening this week. The Medforce are now gone away from Cairo, which is a comfort: one could hardly move about for generals: we had 108 in Egypt! There is no real signs of the Turks' coming on. Of course they can see that it would be lunacy now we are so well prepared: just in the first moments of joy, when the Germans joined hand with the Bulgars, and the blockade of Turkey was ended, they thought about conquering Egypt. Now they have got sensible again. It is very difficult for them (lack of camels) to bring more than a small force down. George Lloyd, who came out with us, came back a short while ago, and worked in the Office for a fortnight. A man called Bolland, who is in the Sudan Agency, as a sort of secretary to Clayton, told me today that his people are living at 228 Woodstock Road (new-comers) and suggested that you might like to go and see them. I didn't undeceive him! Miss Bell is going to India for a week end in a few days time. Mr. Hogarth still in London.
N.
| Source: | HL 312-3 |
| Checked: | jw/ |
| Last revised: | 1 January 2006 |
T. E. Lawrence chronology
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