Tiger650 wrote:I once heard that T.E. Lawrence [Lawrence of Arabia] was riding into battle on a camel, blazing away at the Turk with a .445" Webley when the camel's head got between the Turk and the muzzle of the Webley.
My father always said he was a good friend of TE Lawrence back in England . I took it with a grain of salt . But after his death i was going through all his old photos and found one of a guy in a boxing stance in a garden of a house and looked like he was training . I nearly put it thorough the shredder because had no clue who it was . But something tweaked in my brain and it seemed important . Then the hairline and face hit me like a sledge hammer who it was . I have since positively identified it as TE Lawrence when he was fairly young , without the slicked down hair of all the press photos .
This was a personal photo taken privately on a small old fashion camera almost sepia in colour .
Under very close examination of the back of the photo under magnification and ultraviolet light you can just make out , For Doug , or To Doug . That was my fathers name but you can't see it with the naked eye . A professional photographer picked that up . Unfortunately I can't post the photo as it's a rare photo and I'm not giving it away .
When they first made the film Lawrence of Arabia my dad said that he was not killed on a JAP motorbike it was a Brough Superior . He was right .