T.E Lawrence

T.E Lawrence is a Warlord in the Emirate of England and a the formerly infamous Army Colonel who was loyal to Winston Churchill, the failure who resulted in disaterous deaths of many British Servicemen and resulted in a terrible scramble for the British Empire that ended up destroying and spiting up the Empire and home islands.

## History

### Early Life

Thomas Edward Lawrence was born on 16 August 1888 in Tremadog, Carnarvonshire, Wales, in a house named Gorphwysfa, now known as Snowdon Lodge. His Anglo-Irish father Thomas Chapman had left his wife Edith after he had a son with Sarah Junner who had been governess to his daughters. Sarah had herself been an illegitimate child, having been born in Sunderland as the daughter of Elizabeth Junner, a servant employed by a family named Lawrence; she was dismissed four months before Sarah was born, and identified Sarah's father as "John Junner, Shipwright journeyman".

Lawrence's parents did not marry but lived together under the name Lawrence. In 1914, his father inherited the Chapman baronetcy based at Killua Castle, the ancestral family home in County Westmeath, Ireland. They had five sons, Thomas (called "Ned" by his immediate family) being the second eldest. From Wales, the family moved to Kirkcudbright, Galloway, in southwestern Scotland, then to Dinard in Brittany, then to Jersey.

The family lived at Langley Lodge (now demolished) from 1894 to 1896, set in private woods between the eastern borders of the New Forest and Southampton Water in Hampshire. The residence was isolated, and young Lawrence had many opportunities for outdoor activities and waterfront visits. Victorian-Edwardian Britain was a very conservative society where the majority of people were Christians who considered premarital and extramarital sex to be shameful, and children born out of wedlock were born in disgrace. Lawrence was always something of an outsider, a bastard who could never hope to achieve the same level of social acceptance and success that others could expect who were born legitimate, and no girl from a respectable family would ever marry a bastard.

In the summer of 1896, the family moved to 2, Polstead Road in Oxford, where they lived until 1921. Lawrence attended the City of Oxford High School for Boys from 1896 until 1907, where one of the four houses was later named "Lawrence" in his honour; the school closed in 1966. Lawrence and one of his brothers became commissioned officers in the Church Lads' Brigade at St Aldate's Church.

Lawrence claimed that he ran away from home around 1905 and served for a few weeks as a boy soldier with the Royal Garrison Artillery at St Mawes Castle in Cornwall, from which he was bought out. However, no evidence of this appears in army records.

### Traveling the world

At age 15, Lawrence and his schoolfriend Cyril Beeson cycled around Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, and Oxfordshire, visiting almost every village's parish church, studying their monuments and antiquities, and making rubbings of their monumental brasses. Lawrence and Beeson monitored building sites in Oxford and presented the Ashmolean Museum with anything that they found. The Ashmolean's *Annual Report* for 1906 said that the two teenage boys "by incessant watchfulness secured everything of antiquarian value which has been found." In the summers of 1906 and 1907, Lawrence toured France by bicycle, sometimes with Beeson, collecting photographs, drawings, and measurements of medieval castles. In August 1907, Lawrence wrote home: "The Chaignons & the Lamballe people complimented me on my wonderful French: I have been asked twice since I arrived what part of France I came from".

From 1907 to 1910, Lawrence read history at Jesus College, Oxford. In July and August 1908 he cycled 2,200 miles (3,500 km) solo through France to the Mediterranean and back researching French castles. In the summer of 1909, he set out alone on a three-month walking tour of crusader castles in Ottoman Syria, during which he travelled 1,000 mi (1,600 km) on foot. While at Jesus he was a keen member of the University Officers' Training Corps (OTC). He graduated with First Class Honours after submitting a thesis titled *The Influence of the Crusades on European Military Architecture—to the End of the 12th Century*, partly based on his field research with Beeson in France, and his solo research in France and the Middle East.

In 1910, Lawrence was offered the opportunity to become a practising archaeologist at Carchemish, in the expedition that D. G. Hogarth was setting up on behalf of the British Museum. Hogarth arranged a "Senior Demyship" (a form of scholarship) for Lawrence at Magdalen College, Oxford, to fund his work at £100 a year. He sailed for Beirut in December 1910 and went to Byblos, where he studied Arabic. He then went to work on the excavations at Carchemish, near Jerablus in northern Syria, where he worked under Hogarth, R. Campbell Thompson of the British Museum, and Leonard Woolley until 1914. He later stated that everything which he had accomplished he owed to Hogarth. Lawrence met Gertrude Bell while excavating at Carchemish. He worked briefly with Flinders Petrie in 1912 at Kafr Ammar in Egypt.

At Carchemish, Lawrence was frequently involved in a high-tension relationship with a German-led team working nearby on the Baghdad Railway at Jerablus. While there was never open combat, there was regular conflict over access to land and treatment of the local workforce; Lawrence gained experience in Middle Eastern leadership practices and conflict resolution.

### World War I

T.E Lawrence was sent by Churchill, Lord of Admiralty with Gertrude Bell to meet with the vassal of the Ottoman Sultanate known as the Emirate of Jabal Shammar after the Kingdom of Italy made alliances with Hussein bin Ali, Shariff of Mecca the rebel Shariff who is against Ottoman rule and wants representation for the Arabs and Ibn Saud the rival of the Jabal Shammar Emirate to led a rebellion against the Ottomans and create Arab states.

Lawrence was to distract the Arab Rebels so the Ottomans can focus on helping Britain defeat Bulgaria in the Gallipoli campaign, Sadly the Campaign was a failure as Germany conquered Bulgaria to save it from the British and the Ottomans during it's conquest of the Eastern Front. Worst of all Lawrence lost the campaign against Italy and the Arab Rebels as Italy gained help from Ethiopia who had conquered the British Colonies of Sudan, Kenya and British Somaliland with French Somaliland. Egypt and the Senussi Order also participated in Lawrence's failure by fighting against British forces in Egypt as Indo-Persia conquered, Oman, the Trucial States, Bahrain, Kuwait and Qatar to destroy the British foothold in Arabia.

After the failures Lawrence and Gertude Bell then retreated from the Arabian Peninsula and began to help Britain elsewhere in India as Indo-Persia was conquering the Indian Sub-Continent with Japan. After Persia's successful conquest due to multiple rebellions in India and British Indian troopers and Princely States start defecting to the Persian side, Lawrence and all British people in the Middle East and India then retreat back to the home Islands. Sadly Indo-Persia stole a majority of ships from the British Indian Navy.

Lawrence stopped all the ships at Cape May as British citizens then hurry out as German allied Boers and Natives start charging towards the region to end German conquest in the region. Sadly not all the British citizens were able to make it out of the continent as they did not have enough ships to save all the citizens and they did not have enough time either as the remaining citizens were killed in front of their own people. The Ships were then destroyed by the Imperial German Navy and Imperial Indo-Persian Navy which resulted in all of the British people (except Gertude Bell and T.E Lawrence) on the boats dying.

The two then return to London as they met up with Churchill, Lord of the Admiralty and told him the sad news. Unfortunately things turned for the worse as the three were attacked and called failures by the British Public as Churchill was arrested and branded a Murderer. Gertude Bell was put under house arrest in her father and step-mother's house. Lawrence lost his ranks in the army and put into Scotland Yard as a Churchill loyalist. Churchill was executed three days after the return of Lawrence and Bell.

Twelve days after Churchill's execution, Germany then invaded Britain from Belgium and Norway causing a double strike air raid. The air raid destroyed many homes to the point that British people ended up becoming homeless and they even destroyed many air force bases to prevent resistance from the British Air Force. The Air Raids then bombed the Navy with the same tactic, as Boats moved onto the coast of Britain with Zeppelins dropping German Paratroopers onto London. Lawrence then broke out of the Scotland Yard and then started to fight the Paratroopers and murder them, but sadly he was captured by German Troopers who then tortured him to near death. Lawrence after this experience then got mad to the point he killed the troopers as he barely made it out of London after the explosions. Lawrence heard that Gertude Bell, his comrade in the Middle East and her family went to the Isle of Man and vanished in the explosions on that Island.

### After the War

T.E Lawrence found out from the news that Britain lost the war and the royal Family died during the Bombing which made the man heartbroken to the point he was in severe depression. However he found out Prince Edward of Wales is alive and he is in Canada crowned as King Edward VIII, which made him join up with a group of Warlords loyal to Edward VIII instead of Adalbert I, the Emir of England. T.E Lawrence became the Warlord of the Dorset Region and resides in the city of Dorchester which is the capital of the region under T.E Lawrence's control.

## Marriage

After the War, Lawrence Cathleen Nesbitt (b. 1888) who was a formerly an Actress before the War. The two have no children and they live in Dorset which is the territory he is Warlord of.