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Colonel
T.E. Lawrence
(in full
Thomas Edward Lawrence
), better known in history as
Lawrence of Arabia
(16 August 1888 ? 19 May 1935), was a
British
Army
officer, explorer, scholar, writer, military strategist and linguist. He was born in
Tremadog
,
Caernarfonshire
,
Wales
. He studied history at
University of Oxford
. He joined the Army by taking part in the Officers' Training Corps at Oxford. He is best known for having helped the
Arabs
organize themselves against the
Turks
during the
First World War
.
His memoirs of the time spent with the Arabs,
The Seven Pillars of Wisdom
(1926), is a well-known work of literature. He died in 1935 in a motorcycle accident in Dorset.