General Allenby

[j.sabourn]

As I remember I brought. Up Allenby name in another post with reference I think to people with letters after their name and said I had been to a lecture on the man as. had connections to a group I was in . I have just received a copy of the lecture which is obviously. Too long to print but to anyone wanting to know who I was chuntering on about this is a brief description.
Edmund Allenby. 1st. Viscount Allenby GCB CCMG. GCVO.
Born 23 April 1861 Nottinghamshire UK.
Died 14 May 1936 London UK
Battles / Wars ... Second Boer War
World War 1..Western Front.. Battle of Mons...Retreat from Mons.
Education Halleybury and Imperial Service College.
Books on him Allenby in Palestine.
On the recapture of Jerasulem from the Turks it is interesting to know that Lawrence of Lawrence of Arabia fame was in attendance as a very junior officer.
JWS

[Fouro]

To JWS,
It's good when interesting posts such as this suddenly appear on this forum.

Lawrence of Arabia . General Allenby | PBS

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[Fouro]

Some more info about TE Lawrence.
In 1914, he became an intelligence officer with HQ Middle East. From 1916, alongside a number of British and French officers, he worked with the Arab leaders to ferment an uprising against the Turkish Empire in the Middle East. One of these officers was Lt Col Pierce Joyce, a Connaught Ranger from Galway, with whom he worked closely, particularly in attacks on the Turkish railway system. In 1917, Lawrence and an Arab army captured the Red Sea port of Alabama. Needing a base commander, he found Scott a perfect Irishman. This Irishman was Inniskilling Major RH Scott from Dungannon.
Lawrence and the Arab army then harried the Turks on their eastern flank during General Allenby's advance through Palestine in1917-18.
Lawrence supported the creation of an independent Arab state but the British and French opposed this.
In 1922, with a new name, he joined the RAF as an aircraftsman, and in 1935, he was killed in a motorcycle crash.

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[Fouro]

The Red Sea port mentioned in above post should be "Akaba" and NOT Alabama.
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[John Pruden]

Churchill was not pleased touring the desert states during the war all the Arabs were shouting Lawrence not Churchill ? jp

[j.sabourn]

JP... John maybe they were mistaking Churchill for the other Lawrence. The one who wrote Lady Chatterlys lover, which made big money for them in condensed versions of in the likes of the Suez Canal, and became world best sellers over and over again. No outlay for distribution either all done by willing seafarers who only wanted use of until the next Port. Cheers JS. Think it was D.H. Laowrence, not that I ever read it. Either version . JS.

[Fouro]

Thomas E Lawrence, (Lawrence of Arabia)

Thomas E. Lawrence (of Arabia)

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