- While staying at Winston Churchill's country home, Chartwell, Lawrence came to the dinner tabled dressed in the robes of an Arabian prince. Churchill's children were enchanted, and applauded him.
- British officer who led the Arab armies against the Turks in the Middle East during World War I from 1915 to 1918.
- Appears on the sleeve of The Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" album.
- He served in the Royal Air Force as an enlisted man under the names John Hume Ross and Thomas Edward Shaw. He joined the RAF anonymously for the first time in 1922, but quit due to press publicity. He later joined the Royal Tank Corps, but transferred back to the RAF in 1925. He served 10 years as an enlisted man with the RAF from 1925 until shortly before his death.
- Was a friend of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
- He was awarded the C.B. (Companion of the Order of the Bath) and the D.S.O. (Distinguished Service Order Medal but later allegedly declined the honour of Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath.
- Was a close friend of Virginia Woolf, and had an active correspondence with her.
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