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Outline chronology:
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Youth
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1915
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1916 | 1917
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1918 | 1919
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1920 | 1921
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1922 | 1923
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1924 | 1925
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1926 | 1927
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1928 | 1929
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1930 | 1931
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1932 | 1933
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1934 | 1935
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For the early months
of 1914 see
Youth
August 1914
War is declared, but the Turkish Empire is
not at first involved. Lawrence, on S. F.
Newcombe's advice, decides to join up later,
when his specialist Middle-East knowledge will
be useful to the war-effort. Meanwhile, he works
at Oxford on his survey of antiquities examined
during the previous winter's Sinai expedition, a
task which keeps him busy until September.
October 21
Lawrence joins the Geographical Section of
the General Staff (GSGS) as a civilian. He works
there on maps of the Middle East, and is soon in
uniform with the rank of Temporary 2nd
Lieutenant-Interpreter.
November 1914
Following Turkey's entry into the war,
Lawrence expects to be transferred to Cairo.
However, he is held up in London preparing a
route-report of northern Sinai: the 190-page
Military Report on the Sinai Peninsula.
December 9
Lawrence is posted to the Intelligence
department in Cairo. He travels out with Stewart
Newcombe, overland through France and by steamer
from Marseilles to Port Said.
December 15
Lawrence reaches the Cairo Intelligence
Office at a time when co-operation with the
Arabs seems to offer a promising opening to the
British in the Middle East. He takes up duties
as 'bottle-washer and office-boy
pencil-sharpener and pen wiper', interpreting
information and writing 'little geographical
essays'.
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