T. E. Lawrence — Death

Steve Newman Writer
6 min readDec 17, 2021

“ The motorcycle passed the car all right. Then I saw the motorcycle swerve across the road to avoid two pedal cyclists coming from Bovington…”

Aircraftsman’ Shaw’. Image: Pinterest

When the 47 year old T. E. Lawrence died at Bovington Military Hospital on May 19th 1935 many secrets died with him, not least a convincing explanation of his motorcycle ‘accident’ six days earlier on the road between Bovington Army Camp and his cottage, ‘Clouds Hill’.

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