History of War

LAWRENCE OF ARABIA’S ROBE & DAGGER

Source:   T.E. Lawrence mounted on a camel at the scene of his famously devised victory at Aqaba, July 1917  

Lawrence gifted his robes to an army friend called Arthur Russell in the 1920s, but Russell subsequently had to prevent his mother from making dresses out of them

Lawrence later posed with his jambiya dagger and robes for

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