Hmmm... except Lawrence was on the side of the Arabs, claiming to have been the victim of buggery by Turks.
I'm with Clint on this... the Film Actors Guild is on the march. Well, the prance.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
Lawrence wrote the story in his book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom".
That is why it was in the film. Fair is fair. If it is a lie, it is Lawrence's lie.
Lawrence had an odd morality: His father had left his wife, and shacked up with his mother. After the war, Sir John Chapman acknowledged Lawrence as his illegitimate son. Lawrence changed his name to T.E. Chapman, and joined the Tank Corps as a private. After being recalled from India at the strong request of the government of Afghanistan, (who resented his presence on their border in an "obvious cover") he left the Tank Corps and joined the Royal Air Force. He changed his name again to T.E. Shaw, after his close friend, George Bernard Shaw, and as such, he is mentioned in the Forward to Robert Graves' book "I Claudius". In the Royal Air Force, he was critical in the development of the special boat service to recover downed pilots.