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Lawrence, Thomas Edward (1888-1935), intelligence officer and author

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Lawrence, Thomas Edward (1888-1935), intelligence officer and author

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[edit] Lawrence of Arabia (T E Lawrence)

(See FO 371)

Catalogue Reference	Description
AIR 19/37	D.Garnett: permission for access to Col T E Lawrence's personal file, 1938.
WO 157/738	Intelligence papers, 1916-1918. The last page of these papers is page one of a despatch by Lt Col T E Lawrence.
WO 158/640A	Operations east of Hedjaz Railway, August - November 1918.
WO 158/640B	Terrain between Kasrel Azrak and Hedjaz Railway: notes and sketch maps by Lieut Col T E Lawrence, 1918.
WO 153/1047	Sketch maps and letter ET Tafila 25 January 1918.
WO 32/9615 (code O(U)	Col T E Lawrence: claim in respect of his bodyguard by Mohammed Abdullah Bassam, 1927.
WO 32/5729 (code 44)	for tanks, guns, horses and transport, 1918-1920.
WO 158/605 and WO 158/620	(the latter being very enlightening on the subject of funds - gold - and the Arabs seeming prime interest in that element of the revolt against the Turkish domination. Search should be made, additionally, in the files of the E.E.F. - Command Head Quarters, Cairo where considerable correspondence is to be found dealing with the Hedjas questions and the appointment and activities (as recorded sic) of Lawrence and his friends/associates.
T 161/12/S540/1	(Countries Arabia) subsidies to King Hussein and his sons, 17 June 1920 - 27 January 1922.
T 161/12/S540/2	(Countries Arabia) subsidies to King Hussein and his sons, 27 January 1922-28 January 1929.
CN 5/12 folios 4-5	Photograph of Lawrence at wheel of RAF 200 patrol boat extracted from AIR 5/1372 (reliability of identification of Lawrence unknown!).
CO 732/4 (367)	Arab Bureau, Cairo. Document containing Lawrence's signature.