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à Becket Williams, Christopher IX: 64, 82-3

Aar SP22: 66, 78

Aaronsohn, Aaron, Wilson: 442, 443

Aba el Adham SP22: 443, 553

Aba el Lissan: 

SP22: Arabs rout Turks at 304–5, 319–20; Turks recapture 322; (323); Arabs recover 325–6, 330; (332, 340, 351); Turks fortify 374; bombed by British 376; Turkish garrison 442, 514; Turks withdraw 514; winter 558; stores at 583; Feisal at 610, 616–17; (620, 621); Feisal at 630–1; (638, 639); Arab base 640–1, 642, 663, 669, 677, 696, 697, 698, 700, 703; Diary Jan., Apr. 1918 818; Apr., May, June, July, Aug., Sept. 1918 819 

Letters series and biography: Arabs rout Turks from, Wilson: 416-17, 1072, 1087; charge at I: 14; II 35; camel shot in head; II: 9, 33 Wilson: 11, 15, 158, 159; Turks recapture, Wilson: 433; Arabs recover, Wilson: 471; Arab base, Wilson: 475, 494, 495, 499; Feisal's HQ, Wilson: 505-7, 510, 515-16, 539-40

Aba el Naam SP22: Diary Mar. 1917 816; station 201–2, 203, 205–8, 209, 222

Abbas Hilmi, Khedive of Egypt SP22: 435

Abd el Aziz el Beidawi SP22: 145

Abd el Aziz of Tafas, member of TEL's bodyguard SP22: 437, 439, 487, 489; at Tafas 775–6

Abd el Ghani el Areisi SP22: 30 

Abd el Hamid SP22: 151, 719

Abd el Kader, Emir SP22: 435, 794

Abd el Kader el Abdu, Sheikh SP22: 33; at Yenbo, SP22: 94, 97, 117, 133, 134; Wilson: 341

Abd el Kader el Jesairi, Emir

SP22: character 435, 436; early career 435; joins Feisal 435–6; at Akaba 105, 435; suspected of spying 436; on railway raids 436, 440, 443, 446, 448, 453; at Beni Sakhr feast 454–5; railway raids 461, 462, 464; Auda warns TEL of 450; deserts 465, 467, 470; at Salkhad 502; with Turks 502–3; (668); at Ezraa 771; at Damascus 791, 794, 795, 797, 798–9; rebels 802; flees 803 

Wilson: 1106; in Yarmuk bridge attempt, Wilson: 452-4; and Deraa, Wilson: 460, 461; at Damascus, Wilson: 562, 565, 1108

Abd el Kerim el Beidawi SP22: 106–7, 119, 142, 145–6, 147–8

Abd el Kher (slave) SP22: 491

Abd el Latif SP22: 598

Abd el Mayin (Mayein), Sherif SP22: 514, 534, 561–3

Abd el Mejid el Beidawi SP22: 145

Abd el Rahman, member of TEL's bodyguard SP22: 437, 439–40, 489

Abd el Rahman, retainer of Mohammed SP22: 354

Abdul-Hamid. Sultan SP22: 25, 26, 29, 30, 34l Wilson: 72, 945-6

Abdulla el Deleimi: at Yenbo SP22: 129; on march 149; at Kurr 244, 245–6; Wadi Sirhan 275, 278; at Tafileh 536, 539–41, 543

Abdullah el Fair, Sherif SP22: 515; at Rum 392, 396; in Dead Sea campaign 537; raids Mezraa 547; at Ghor 548; Aba el Lissan 617; in Tafileh 623; Wilson: 477

Abdulla el Nahabi: career 5 SP22: 21–3; leader of TEL's bodyguard 523, 525; at Allenby's HQ 523; at Akaba 528–9; at Tafileh 549, 550; love of animals 549, 652, 689; (597, 599, 622, 652, 689–90); at Mezerib 729; at Nisib 741, 742; punishes bodyguard 750; at Deraa 784

Abdulla el Raashid SP22: 61, 64, 70, 85

Abdullah ibn Dakhil, Wilson: 367-9

Abdulla ibn Hamza, Sherif: at Ghor SP22: 547, 548, 566

Abdullah ibn Hussein, Emir  
(1882-1951)

SP22: character 218–19, 221–2; early life 29, 84–5; outbreak of WWI 30, 31, 39; TEL and Storrs meet 45, 47, 48–54, 56–8; plans AR 53, 81; at Taif 53, 55; gives account of AR 55–6; blockades Medina 104–5; withdraws troops 124; sent to Wadi Ais 131–2, 136, 151–2, 153, 180; captures Eshref 150–1, 152; TEL with at Wadi Ais 190, 194–5, 201, 208, 217–19, 221–2, 223; life in camp 217–21; attitude to AR 218; attitude to Feisal 221; at Yenbo 519; TEL seeks to transfer Arab Regulars from 631, 632–3, 634; relations with Hussein and Feisal 699

Letters series and Wilson II: 180 described by TEL, Wilson: 307, 385-6, 387; negotiates with British, 1914, Wilson: 165, 1002-3; in 1916 Revolt, Wilson: 286-8, 300, 302, 333; TEL meets, Wilson: 307-8, 310; moves to Wadi Ais, Wilson: 347, 349, 352, 353, 354, 355, 371, 1046; 1917, attacks on railway, Wilson: 378, 379-81, 386-7, 388-9; TEL with, Wilson: 383, 385-8, 389, 432, 1061-2, 1079; plans, Wilson: 386, 1061-2; attitude to France, Wilson: 387-8; attacks on railway, 1918, Wilson: 506; proposed ruler of Mesopotamia, Wilson: 573, 575, 576; 1919, attacked by ibn Saud, Wilson: 613; 1921, Wilson: 645-6, 647, 648; ruler in TransJordan, Wilson: 649-50, 655-6, 661-3; memoirs, Wilson: 1046, 1061 Other refs: I: 126, 129

Abdulla ibn Mahanna SP22: 180

Abdulla ibn Mesfer SP22: 217

Abdulla ibn Thawab, Sherif SP22: 109

Abdulla the Mirzugi SP22: 318–19

ABSTRACTION SP22: 23 

Abtan, Motalga champion SP22: 302, 536

Abu Ajaj SP22: 156, 158–9, 266

Abu Arad, Wadi SP22: 264; Diary May. 1917 816

Abu el Naam station, Wilson: 388

Abu Markha SP22: 190, 216; Diary Mar., Apr. 1917 816

Abu Naif SP22: 502

Abu Obeida SP22: 348

Abu Raga SP22: 247, 250–3, 254; Diary May 1917 816 

Abu Saad SP22: 249, 251; Diary May. 1917 816

Abu Sawana SP22: 466, 469, 470, 476, 477; cars driven in 516; Diary Nov., Dec. 1917 818

Abu Shaama SP22: 175

Abu Tageiga (Howeitat) tribe SP22: 175

Abu Taka, Hejaz Railway at SP22: ill.

Abu Tarfeiyat valley SP22: 288–91; Diary May. 1917 816; Jan. 1918 818

Abu Tayi (Howeitat) tribe SP22: 177, 230, 278, 283; on march to Akaba 288, 301; at Aba el Lissan 326, 603; taking Akaba 450; on railway raids 321; (353); threaten to desert 384, 390, 450; on railway raids 391, 434; treatment of camels 449; at Jefer 448, 450; at Tafileh 535; at Semna 603; at Faraifra 623; at Bair 670; herdsmen at Wadi Jinz 670–1; Wilson: 396, 439

Abu Tiyur SP22: 177

Abu-Raka, Wilson: 390

Abu Zereibat, Hamdh SP22: 137, 138, 154, 155, 158, 160, 181, 209; Diary Jan., Mar. 1917 816

Abyadh SP22: 467

accent marks in writing I: 131, 133

Acre SP22: 359

action: compared to ideas SP22: 658; and fiction 681

Adam, Paul, Wilson: 10, 12, 982

Adam, Robert and James II: 66, 67, 98

Addis Ababa I: 197

Adelphi Terrace, London (Shaws' flat) I:  xviii-xix, 209; II:  55, 66, 68, 98, 106, 109, 123; meetings re Roger Casement II: 157, 159; Shaws leave II: 170, 199

Aden SP22: 219, 237; II: 20; Wilson: 1915, 175, 182, 183; 1921, 655, 656, 658-60

Adham SP22: 471

Adheimat well SP22: 291

Adhub of the Zebn SP22: 459, 462, 466, 473; rescues brother 484–5, 486; (513, 591, 593, 714)

Admetus I: 163, 164

Adwan SP22: 714

Æ see Russell, George

aerial surveying, Wilson: 189, 258, 952, 1007

aerodromes: Allies construct in Yenbo valley SP22: 110–11; at Rabegh 125; Ugila 225; at Azrak 707; TEL at Deraa 495; (724, 784–5); Ramleh 754, 755–6; Um el Surab 756; Turkish, near Umtaiye attacked 747–8; Deraa, Sept. 1918 724; TEL spends night at Deraa 784–5

aeroplanes: Beduin fear of SP22: 92, 355; first arrivals at Rabegh 104; air reconnaissance 116–17; B.E.12s 707, 717, 726, 749; Bristol Fighters 628, 629, 707, 708, 712, 716, 749, 754, 755, 757, 759, 760, 765, (brought down 769); air self-contained Wghting unit 754; Handley–Page 756, 757, 758, 759, (Bedawi reports 759), (arrives at Ul el Surab 759–60), (bombs Mafrak 760); TEL's flight to Jefer 652; sent to Azrak 707, 712; aerial combat 726–8, 757–8; being shelled in 747; Allied need for reinforcements 749, 751; reinforcements supplied 754–7; see also bombing raids; Royal Air Force; Royal Flying Corps

Aeschylus IX: 23

AFFAIR OF HONOUR SP22: 146

Afghanistan: II: 107, 174; IX: 66; 1927 Wilson: 793; 1928, 828; allegations of TEL spying in, Wilson: 835-6, 840-2, 843; King visits Karachi II: 198, 201; Shinwari rebellion, Wilson: 840-2, 843

Afuleh SP22: 713, 735, 757; Wilson: 548, 549

Agde, France, Wilson: 47

Ageila SP22: 292–3; Diary June 1917 817

Ageilat clan SP22: 379

Ageyl tribe, SP22: 84, 142–4, 522; at battle of Medina 78, 524; at Wadi Safra rout 111; at Bir Said rout 119; march on Wejh 132–4, 160–1; at Wejh 170; rebel against commandant 172; escort TEL to Wadi Ais 181–2, 184, 186; member murdered 184–5; return to Wejh 223–4; on march to Akaba 241, 242, 245, 252–3, (attack railway 260–1, 316), 269, 270, 272, 276, 277–8, 279, 290, 303; clear blocked well 318–19; at Akaba 336; after Akaba victory 351, 375;  members in TEL's bodyguard 242, 437–8, 460, 524; attitude to sexuality 529; at Tafileh 541, 542, 543, 545; at Atatir 594; participate in punishment 622; Wilson: 367-9, 382, 965

Agha Khan SP22: 358

Agida, Jebel SP22: 118, 119

Agida, Wadi SP22: 106–7, 119

Agida hills SP22: 117

Agidat el Jemeilin SP22: 263

Agunna SP22: 181

Ahad society see Al Ahd society

Ahmed, member of TEL's bodyguard SP22: 300, 381, 391, 411, 421, 437, 439, 440, 461, 466; feud with Awad 466, 476; at Azrak 487; sent to Akaba 489

Ahmed el Mansur, Sherif SP22: 70

Ahmed ibn Mansur SP22: 124

Ahmed ibn Mohammed abu Tageiga, SP22: 178; biog: 369

Ahmed Tewfik Bey 160SP22:  

Aiaishi Juheina SP22: 148–9

Aid, Harithi Sherif: goes blind SP22: 387, 390, 396–7, 415

Aid ibn Benaiyin SP22: 649, 650

Aigues-Mortes, France, Wilson: 47

Aima village, men from SP22: 544–5, 567

Ain Ali village SP22: 116

Ain Arnoua SP22: 248

Ain el Assad SP22: 673, 674, 714; TEL's epitaph written in sand 714

Ain el Beidha, near Azrak SP22: 291, 461;  Diary Nov. 1917 817

Ain Kadeis, Wilson: 140

Air Ministry I: 76, 125, 140, 142; II: 18 

aircraft see aeroplanes

airships, R.100/R.101: trial flights, Wilson: 855-6; crash, Wilson: 874,1149

Ais, Wadi, near Kheibar

SP22: Abdulla sent to 131–2, 136, 138, 139, 151, 153; Abdulla camped at 180; TEL journeys to 181–90; TEL with Abdulla at 190, 191–5, 199–202, 208–9, 217–22; TEL's party ride through 202; return to 208–9, 216; flooded 216

Wilson:  position, Wilson: 347; Abdullah moves to, Wilson: 347, 349, 352, 353, 354, 355, 371, 378, 1046; TEL's ride to, Wilson: 348, 379, 382-3; TEL at Wilson: 383, 385-7, 389,1060-1

Aish, Wadi SP22: 258; Diary May 1917 816

Aitken, Charles II: 25, 27  

Aiz el Beidha SP22: 672

Ajaimi, Wilson: 958

Ajlun SP22: 486 

Ajlun hills SP22: 759

Akaba

SP22: Akaba: strategic position 167, 350; plans to occupy 167, 168–9, 234; TEL plans to journey to 234, 235, 240; GEOGRAPHY 236–9; Allied troops aim for 238; Turkish defences 238–40, 334; Arab march to prepared – TRANSPORT AND MEN 240–2; journey to 242–306, 312–34; TEL insists on as goal 293–5, 311; plan to attack 304–5; negotiations with Turkish garrison 334–6; Arabs take 336, 337; entry ill.; Zeid's army arrives ill.; Arabs occupy 338–40; TEL gives news to British 346–9; stores and forces sent to 346, 347, 349–50, 351, 352, 354; TEL returns to, Nasir at 353; Allied troops arrive 373; Turks plan to march on 374; Allied base 352–4, (TEL returns from Rum to consult Feisal 392), (TEL returns from train mining 417–18), 425, 435, 438, (stores supplied from 487, 490), 507, 512, 513, (Abdulla el Nahabi comes to 521), (TEL's bodyguard at 523–4), (discipline maintained 528–30), 613, (camels arrive at 639), 646, (ICC at 649), (bodyguard ride out 652), (662); TEL at ill.; Nuri Said at ill. Diary July, Aug., Sept., Oct 1917 817; Nov., Dec., 1917, Jan, Mar. 1918 818; May, July, Aug. 1918 819

Letters series and Wilson: TEL visits, 1914, Wilson: 141-2; British plans to occupy, Wilson: 293-5, 297, 360-1; TEL reports on scheme, Wilson: 294-5, 1029, 1056; French propose landing, Wilson: 359-61, 372, 1049, 1050; Arab plans to attack, Wilson: 364-6, 370-1, 373, 376-7, 396-401, 1054-6, 1066-7; British plans for rule, Wilson: 397-9; British Navy at, Wilson: 293, 400, 437, 1066; Arabs take, Wilson: 417; I: 148; reaction to Arab victory, Wilson: 419, 420-1, 424; Feisal moves to, Wilson: 425, 426, 429, 430, 447-9, 491; TEL at, 1917 Wilson: 433-5; Arab military base, Wilson: 429, 437-40, 443, 446, 452, 459, 469-71, 478, 479, 492; supplies, Wilson: 447-8; press visit, Wilson: 490, 493-4, 623; Camel Corps at, Wilson: 534

Akebat el Hejazia SP22: 610

Akhua society SP22: 26

Akras, Alexander, Wilson: 153

al Ahd society, SP22: 26–7, 30; Wilson: 158, 199, 205, 1011

al Fatah society, Wilson: 199, 201, 205, 1011

al Masri, Abdul Aziz: approaches British,
1914, Wilson: 157-64; 1915 negotiations, Wilson: 198; 1916, Wilson: 257, 260-4, 268, 1027, 1033; at Rabegh, Wilson: 300, 308-11, 329, 339, 1041-2, 1049; Jidda, Wilson: 307; view of Shereefian family, Wilson: 329, 354

Albania SP22: 35

Albanians SP22: 25

Albi I: 79, 83

alcohol SP22: 51, 137; Wilson: 35, 350

Aldington, Richard: Lawrence of Arabia, A Biographical Enquiry IX: 193; V: 8, 980-1, 1084, 1132

Aleppo, Syria: SP22: 288, 293, 358, 361, 362, 363, 364, 423; TEL in, 1909, Wilson: 60, 61; castle, Wilson: 92, 96-7; antiquities purchase, Wilson: 61, 101, 110, 112, 117, 118; Baghdad railway HQ, Wilson: 93, 98, 99, 101,-110; in Sykes–Picot Agreement SP22: 122;  outbreak of WWI SP22: 31; threatened by Kurds, 1912-13, Wilson: 112-13, 115, 945-7, 996-7; Vali of, Wilson: 106, 182, 413; TEL brings rifles to, Wilson: 118, 996-7; 1914, Wilson: 154; TEL's view of, Wilson: 185; in McMahon letter, Oct. 1915, Wilson: 214-15; in SP, Wilson: 245

Alexandra, Queen: in The Mint II: 182, 183, 204

Alexandretta, Egypt SP22: 31; landing considered, Wilson: 169-72, 1004; decision against, Wilson: 178, 181-2, 186-7, 1005; Arabs' attitude to, Wilson: 200-1, 228, 284; TEL presses for, Wilson: 201-2, 1012; November 1915, Wilson: 222-5, 228-32, 1017; postwar, Wilson: 575, 576

XXX

Alexandria, Egypt SP22: Diary July, Aug. 1917 817; June, July 1918 819: conference proposed, 1915, biog: 222

Ali, Ageyli member of TEL's bodyguard SP22: 184, 242, 290, 437

Ali (servant of TEL; 'Daud'), biog: 408, 456-7, 495-6,1069; death, biog: 492-3. For SP22 refs see Daud

Ali, standard-bearer from Nejd SP22: 110

Ali Abu Fitna SP22: 282, 283

Ali el Alayun SP22: 529, 530

Ali Fuad Pasha SP22: 429

Ali ibn Hussein, Emir 
(1879-1935)

SP22: early life 29, 84–5; outbreak of WWI 31; fosters AR 32, 33; TEL meets 45, 59–60; in Rabegh 52, 53, 59–61, 79–80, 81, 104, 123; recovers Bir ibn Hassani 123, 124; falls back 124, 125; in Yenbo 519; TEL seeks to transfer Arab Regulars from 631, 632–3, 634

Biography: de scribed by TEL, biog: 310, 432; by Joyce, biog: 390; in 1916 Revolt, biog: 284, 287-8, 293, 297, 300, 310-11, 321-2, 329, 333, 339, 346; 1917, biog: 354, 379-80, 1034; 1915, attacks on railway, biog: 506; in 1921 negotiations, biog: 660-1 

Ali ibn el Hussein el Harthi, Sherif 

SP22: character and appearance 433–4, 490–1; early life 66, 433; at battle of Medina 33, 66, 78; at well of the Masruh 64–6; on railway raids 180, 433, 434, 440, 443–4, 446, 447, 451, 451–2, (at Bair 453–5), 461–2, (at Azrak 464–5), 466, 468–9, 472, 474, 475–6, 477, 479, 482–3, 485, 514; at Azrak base 487, 488, 489, 490, 493, 502, 503–4, 549, 581, 596; preaching 773

Biography: 453, 459

 

Ali Nejib (Turkish officer), biog: 264, 268, 270

Ali Riza Pasha Rikabi in secret committee at Damascus SP22: 30, 434; (453, 791, 795); appointed Military Governor of Damascus SP22: 807, 810; (at Damascus): 1917, biog: 413; 1915, biog: 562, 563, 569, 570, 571, 1106

Algerians: refugees in Syria SP22: 359; in Jaulan 435–6; Pisani's troops 713; in Damascus 794, 795, 798–9

Algiers SP22: 435

All Souls College, Oxford University I: 35, 40, 41, 44, 45, 185; II: 126, 146, 147, 155; 1910, biog: 69; 1919-20, biog: 616, 621, 627, 634-5, 637, 666; TEL's Fellowship, II: 16, 17, 23, 29, 49 ; biog: 616; TEL leaves, biog: 666

Allenby, Lady, II: 24; biog: 571

Allenby, General Sir Edmund (1861-1936)

SP22: Allenby, General Sir Edmund H. H. 7, 26–7, 40; personality 427, 682–3, 810; comes to Egypt 98, 346, 348, 427; and Dawnay 428; (429–30, 431, 432); first meets TEL 348–9; Feisal transferred to command of 337, 350–1; discussion with TEL at GHQ, Oct. 1917 423–4; victories, Nov. 1917 507–8; (509); at Jerusalem 510; plans, Dec. 1917 510–11; plans, Feb. 1918 772–4; Corps conference 574; (576, 578); to attack Amman 579; (584, 592); falls back from Amman 593, 594, 603, 612; (611); plans, May 1918 613–15; disposes of abolished Brigade's camels 615–16, 617; (631, 632); choosing staff 633; plans, June–July 1918 633–4,  635, 636–9, 640–1; (663, 678, 697, 698); on Hussein's repudiation of Jaafar as Commander 700,  702; Sept. 1918 710, 711, 713,  723, 731, 735, 736, 737, communications with TEL 749), (victories 753, 757), (TEL with in GHQ 753–5), 760, 766, 784, 790, 796, 803; at Damascus 810–11; meets Feisal 810–11; arrives in Damascus ill.

Letters Series: I: 40-1, 207; II:  24-5, 27, 188, 192; portrait II: 25

Biog: in Cairo, biog: 418, 420, 422-3, 447, 447-8, 482-3, 484; first meets TEL, biog: 420-2; Arab army placed under, biog: 426, 429, 430, 1076; views of Arab action, biog: 426-8; troops withdrawn, biog: 500, 501; Sept. 1917 offensive, biog: 516-17, 518, 521,523, 527; talks with TEL, biog: 462, 465-6, 485; and administration of Syria, biog: 532-3, 555-6, 569-71, 1102-3; and Feisal, biog: 536, 548-9; orders to Arabs, 1915, biog: 549-50, 555; after Palestine victory, biog: 550-3; and entry into Damascus, biog: 556, 561, 1103, 1107, 1108; at Damascus, biog: 565-8, 1108, 1109; High Commissioner in Egypt, biog: 613, 616; in Thomas lectures, biog: 623, 626, 1137; on SP, biog: 779; TEL writes of, biog: 779

Alwain, kinsman of Auda Abu Tayi  SP22: 670, 685, 686

Amanullah, King of Afghanistan, biog: 840

Amara, biog: 950

amateurism I: 180

American Mission, biog: 59-60, 74, 95; see also Jebail, school

Americans in Arabia SP22: 25

Amery, Leopold, biog: 708, 709

Amk, Wadi SP22: 185–6

Amman

SP22: 280, 310, 537, 546, 573–4, 576; English fall back from 593, 594–5, 602–3, 612–13, 636; TEL explores 595; Turks strengthen 612, 614, 620; (640, 690); advance on feigned 691, 706, 709, 710, 711; railway 711, 716, 721, 723; (753, 754, 760, 764)

Biography: raided, 1917, biog: 485-6, 495; effect on Feisal, biog: 500, 501, 1093; Arabs feign raid, biog: 545, 546; evacuated, biog: 553; 927, 649-50, 662

 

Ammari, Wadi Sirhan SP22: 456, 458, 459–60, 671, 672, 674, 695; Diary Aug. 1918 819

Amran, a sub-tribe of the Howeitat SP22: 234, 535, 603, 607, 608, 649

Amri well SP22: 190;  Diary Nov. 1917 817; Aug. 1918 819

Amritsar, biog: 834-5

Amruh SP22: 693–4, 695

Anatolia SP22: 35, 36, 86, 356, 365, 665, 668, 813; biog: 1011

Andreyev, Leonid II: 174, 175

Aneiza, biog: 497

Anazeh tribe SP22: 176, 779 biog: 947

ANCIENT PALACES SP22: 693–4

Aneyza SP22: 143, 321, 444, 534, 573, 583, 605, 614; Arab force at 620; TEL's party attacked near 629–30; (638); Diary Apr. 1918 818

Anglo-French Declaration, 1918, biog: 581, 1099

Anglo-German Review IX: 182

animals: TEL hates SP22: 171, 680; pets 284; shot in desert for food 150, 187, 266, 269, 414, 466; see also camels; gazelle; goats; horses; mares; mules; oryx; sheep

Annad bin Atban bin Jazi SP22: 536, 538

Annad, son of Auda abu Tayi: death SP22: 230, 302; tomb 302; (536)

Ansariya community SP22: 357–8

Antar, Jebel 202, 207

ANTICS SP22: 297–8

Antioch SP22: 813

Antonius, George II: 26

Anz SP22: 294, 488, 502

Apollonius of Tyana SP22: 555

Aquarius (ship), biog: 915

Aquinas, St. Thomas II: 21, 23

ARAB AFFAIRS GO WRONG, 1916 SP22: 42

Arab Bulletin SP22: 43, 103; II: 114, 116, 145; biog: 287, 300, 435, 499, 968, 976, 1087; 'Supplementary Paper', biog: 472-5, 1088; used by L. Thomas, biog: 624; used in 77', biog: 628; seen by Thomas, biog: 653; held by CS, biog: 907-8

Arab Bureau, Cairo SP22: 43, 99; set up, 1916, biog: 247-8, 279; 'Arab Bureau Summary', biog: 287, 289; administration, biog: 290-2; TEL works for 301-3; (305, 323); and IEF (D), biog: 955-6; McMahon replaced, biog: 306-7, 319, 594; 1917, biog: 372-5, 434-5; see also Arab Bulletin

Arab feasts I: 183, 184

Arab forces

SP22:

  • REGULARS: formed at Rabegh 46, 53, 59, 98, 104, 105; under Ali 104; Jaafar appointed Commander 166; strengthened, Jan. 1917 166; compared with tribal 233; Aug. 1918, moved forward 374; to move from Akaba to Maan 573–4; plans for, Feb. 1918 580, 583–4; on railway raids 601–2; attack Maan 603–4; withdraw from Maan 604–5; invest Maan 610; attack Jerdun 610; take Jerdun 619; under Zeid 620; at Medina 631; TEL seeks to transfer to Feisal 631, 632–3, 634; casualties by July 1918 640; compared with British 643; military decorations 647; Hashimite Regiment 647; compared with Beduin 646; Jaafar's command repudiated by Hussein 698; officers resign 698; achievement under Jaafar 699
  • TRIBAL 88–93; physical condition 88; pay 89; conditions of service 89; components 89–90; TACTICAL QUALITIES 90–1, 232; working with British 91, 201, 295, 347, 583–4, 643, 649, 650, 651, 701, 710–11, 755, 762, 783, 790, 791; Feisal organizes 105; marshalled 127, 128–9; tribes combined in 90, 124, 128, 178–9, 248, 769; machine-gun companies 128, 228–9, 434–5, 448, (mutiny 701); ‘mounted infantry' 128–9, 140, 147, 513–14; marching to Wejh 142–50; concept of leadership 153; augmented at Wadi Hamdh 156, 157–8; casualties 197; military qualities 232–3; working with professionals 233; marching 288–9; transferred to Allenby's command 350–1; leave refused by Hussein 353; in Syria 369–73; discipline 371; organization 371–2; camels for 573, 576–7; discipline 585–6, 587, 588; supplies 618; TEL's plans for reinforcement and disposition, June 1918 631, 632–3, 634; mutiny 701; march for Azrak 701–2; marching, Sept. 1918 769; see also bodyguard, TEL's

Letters series and  biography: 427, 1049; attitude to Christian troops, biog: 296-7, 319-20, 330, 338-9, 343-4, 346, 360, 1047; 7976, 313-15; 1917, British views of, biog: 355-6, 418-19; numbers, biog: 507, 1061; Arab Regulars, 1918, 506-8; Allenby commands, biog: 426, 429, 430, 1076; at Akaba, biog: 437, 1094; at Maan, biog: 498-9, 1092; Iraqi officers

Arab Government, instituted at Damascus SP22: 798–801

Arab Independence Movement: beginning in Mesopotamia SP22: 39; (88); and Wingate 350–1; and Syria 365–7; Feisal preaches 619; irregularity 646; (659); Feisal offers to serve under TEL in 702; (791, 793); converted in Damascus to Government 799

Arab nationalism: prewar revolutionary movements, biog: 156-7; secret societies, biog: 158, 199, 201, 205, 211, 1011; in Turkish army, biog: 158-9, 170, 198, 199, 201, 242-3, 260, 262-3, 268, 400; Pan-Arab union, proposed, biog: 159, 193, 206, 607, 1113; incriminated by French consulate papers, biog: 1085; approaches to British, 1914, biog: 157 60,164-6; 7975,169-71, 185-6, 195-201; Caliphate proposed, biog: 165, 183, 187, 195, 216, 1003, 1010; Grey's message, biog: 192; Hussein's demands, biog: 195-7; Turkish repression, biog: 200-1; al Faroki, biog: 198-201; revolt planned, biog: 200-2, 250-1; Young Arab party, biog: 207-8, 1011; French attitude to, biog: 218-19; Anglo-Indian attitude to, biog: 160-4, 192, 219-21; British negotiations, 1915 biog: 204-9, 211-17, 218-22; McMahon letter to Hussein, Oct. 1915, biog: 214-16, 218; TEL writes of biog: 185-6, 472-3, 806; Feisal's memo on, biog: 1918, 595-7

Arab Revolt  

SP22: planned 3, 30–4, 43–4; AIMS 5, 6, 86–7, 232; SPIRIT 8–12;  and British Government 7–8; Wingate and 39, 42; date fixed 221; first battle, Medina 34, 66, 77–8, 156; discredited in view of British 41–2; Hejaz opposition to 50; funds from Hussein 50, 78, 86, 89;  HISTORY recounted by Feisal 77–80; REASONS 85–6; ASSETS 88–9, 92, 196, 200, 232; CAMPAIGN PROSPECTS, 1916 91–4; preaching and CONVERSION 124, 175–8, 305, 356, 441, 462–4, 503, 619, 655–8, 664, 773; TEL's part in 139–40, 223, 248, 295–6, 377, 417, 419, 430–1, 571–2, 610, 651–2, 653, 657–62, 678, 702, 802, 809–10, 812–13;  TACTICS 142, 195–201, 232–4; allegiance sworn 156–8, 175, 177, 178, 292–3; internal conflict avoided 158, 248; funds from British 165, 526, 551, 555, 556, 567–8, 576, 633; tribes united 178–9; ARAB MOTIVE 194–5; ELEMENTS 196–7; plans for carrying into Syria 367–73; to be fought by local people 551; spread, 1918 619; irregularity 646; pain and death in 659–61; honour 766–7

Letters Series: I: xiii, 4, 40-1, 43, 129, 133, 150, 151, 183; II: 24, 27, 58, 130, 155, 210, 211; GBS writes of II: 6-7, 9, 33-4; TEL's bodyguard I: 175, 176, 177; see also Aba el Lissan; Deraa 

Biog: planned, biog: 200-2, 250-1; Hejaz, 1916, biog: 281, 284-9, 292-303; Oct.-Nov., biog: 305-32; Dec. 1916-Jan. 1917, biog: 333-58; Jan-March, biog: 359-81; strategy, 1917, biog: 383; March-April, biog: 382-94; April-July, biog: 395-417; July-Aug. 1917, biog: 418-35; TEL writes of, biog: 316-17, 367, 369, 628-30; memo to Cabinet on, biog: 578-9; TEL plans account of, biog: 594, 598, see also Seven Pillars of Wisdom

Araba, Wadi SP22: 236, 340, 515, 548, 549, 565, 677; peasants of 534; TEL's party lost in 570; Diary Feb. 1918 818

Arabia see desert and place names

ARABIA PROPER SP22: 12–13    

Arabian experience, TEL's IX: 47, 93, 109- 10, 193, 194; see also RD; SP

Arabian Nights, The (J. C. Mardrus ver-
sion), biog: 719-20

Arabian Report, biog: 1036-7

Arabic language SP22: 12; II: 176; biog: 593, 1112; banned SP22: 24, 26; dialects SP22: 111, 246–7, 277, 439; spoken by TEL SP22: 247, 419; spoken in Syria SP22: 357, 358, 359–60, 363, 366–7; salutations SP22: 557; TEL studies, biog: 54, 74, 77, 96, 103, 104, 107, 350; in Syria, biog: 185-6; TEL proposes for Mesopotamian Government, biog: 639 TEL studies, biog: 54, 74, 77, 96, 103, 104, 107, 350; in Syria, biog: 185-6; TEL proposes for Mesopotamian Government, biog: 639 TEL studies, biog: 54, 74, 77, 96, 103, 104, 107, 350; in Syria, biog: 185-6; TEL proposes for Mesopotamian Government, biog: 639

Arabs  

SP22: origins and definition 12–14, 15–17; beliefs 17–23; marriage 10; under Turkish rule 23–9, 30–4, 35–7; TEL living among 10–12, 34–5, 227–8, 679, 714, 790; in Turkish army 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 39, 40, 58; in Syria 358–9, 360, 361–7; opinion of Turks 404, 457–8; restlessness 404; FEELING 457–8; appearance 651; capacity for absolute 714; see also Arab forces; Beduin; dress; nationalism and nationality; Semites; tribes and names of tribes

Letters Series: II: 112, 176; Doughty's view of II: 111; TEL's campaign on behalf of I: xiii-xiv; II: 24, 176-7

Biog: TEL writes of, biog: 316-17, 524-5, 534, 543, 713, 795, 806; TEL's advice on dealing with, biog: 36-7, 435, 960-5; TEL's relationship with, biog: 409-11, 413-14; TEL seeks freedom for, biog: 542-5; dress, biog: 375, 963, 1038; TEL wears, biog: 106, 334-5, 420, 623, 995, 1034-5, 1112; feasts, biog: 408-9; servants biog: 965; attitude to French, biog: 443-4, 1085; see also Bedouin; Hejaz and names of tribes

Aran Island II: 4, 91

Arar, Wadi: railway attacked SP22: 722–6; bridge destroyed 724

archaeology: TEL studies, biog: 28, 64, 69, 73^t, 85-7, 666, 990; see also Carchemish

Archer, William II: 161; plays II: 74, 106

Ard el Suwan, crossing the SP22: 300

Arethusa, HMS SP22: 134, 512; Diary Feb. 1917 816; Apr., June 1918 819

Arfaja, Wadi Sirhan SP22: 267, 274, 275–6; Diary May. 1917 816

Aridh oasis SP22: 13, 16

Aries, France, biog: 47

Arish, el SP22: 237, 342, 355, 375, 376

Aristophanes I: 61

Armenia, biog: 115, 117, 202, 583, 1012, 1025

Armenians: subject to Turks SP22: 25, 35; deported and executed 28, 34; and Anatolia 86; in Syria 357, 358, 363; at Azrak 489; at Tafileh 535, 545; watering camels at Bair 676, 677; officer at Tell el Shehab 732–3, 735 

armoured cars SP22: see Hejaz Armoured Car Company; biog: 471, 478, 479, 492, 498, 509, 629, 667, 709, 710, 1087, 1121; 

Armistice, 1918 SP22: 126; II: 177; anniversaries II: 185, 186; Armistice Day 1918 biog: 580

Army, British

Letters series: 1: 33, 52, 130: TEL enlists I: 37, 42, 43, 47; TEL's file I: 23; see also Tank Corps Training Centre

Biog: on war outbreak, 1914, biog: 151; Frank Lawrence in, biog: 151, 190; TEL commissioned, 1914, biog: 152, 1001; TEL's promotions, biog: 372-3, 425, 480, 492, 1017-18, 1075; discipline, biog: 1124; compared with RAF, 711, 712, 1124; Devon Territorials, 1916, biog: 278; Liddell Hart writes of, biog: 907; see also Egyptian Expeditionary Force; Indian Army Expeditionary Force; Mediterranean Expeditionary Force; Royal Garrison Artillery; Tank Corps Training Centre

Army & Navy Gazette, biog: 845

Army Council, biog: 616-17

Army List, 1914, biog: 1001

Army Quarterly, biog: 1124

Army Telegraph Forms I: 183, 184

Arnold, Matthew IX: 23, 32

Arnoua, Wadi SP22: 246–8; Diary May 1917 816

Arslan (soldier-servant) SP22: 181, 185, 187; camel-riding 223–4; falls behind 224

art, Arab SP22: 18; works of, biog: 675-6

ARTEMIS ORTHIA SP22: 525–6

Arwa, sub-section of Harb SP22: 153

Asaaf: death SP22: 279

asceticism, biog: 112

Ashendene Press I: xix, xx, 102; biog: 635, 665, 745

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford I: 173; II: 5, 22; biog: 28, 42, 52, 53, 64, 101, 129, 152; objects from Syrian excavations, biog: 61, 101, 116-17, 118, 122-3, 125

Ashraf SP22: 149, 156

Asi ibn Atiyeh SP22: 175

Asia: TEL's vision of development SP22: 812–13

Asia magazine, biog: 624, 653, 1092, 1138
Asir, biog: 182, 183

asparagus SP22: 731

Asquith, Margot, Countess of Oxford and Asquith: Autobiography I:  23, 128, 129, 131

Assad Shukair, Imam SP22: 484

Assaf, Haurani peasant: in TEL's bodyguard SP22: 378, 381

Associated Press, biog: 889-90

Assyria SP22: 17

Assyrian language, biog: 72, 74

Astor, Nancy, Lady II: xii;  IX: 173; biog: 854-5, 858, 875, 913, 934,935

astrology II: 79

astronomy SP22: 301–2

Ataman SP22: 494

Atara area SP22: 591, 594, 596; Diary Apr. 1918 818

Atatir SP22: 459, 592–3, 596

Atban tribe SP22: 119, 221

Ateiba tribe, biog: 385, 386; at battle of Medina SP22: 66, 78; and Ageyl 172; on railway attack 201, 202; war song 208–9; servant of Sultan 211–12; (221, 351, 560)

Athens: TEL visits, biog: 76, 194; British Intelligence in, biog: 194

Atkinson, C. T., biog: 67

Atlantic Monthly IX: 3, 10, 141

ATONEMENT SP22: 660–1

Atwi: attacked SP22: 314–16

Auda ibn Zuweid: SP22: plunders Stotzingen mission 149; at Wadi Hamdh 156 

Auda the Amrani SP22: 608

Ausaji, Wadi SP22: 302, 456, 676, 686

Australian forces SP22: 753; attitude to Arabs 382; prisoners on train 473; in Imperial Camel Brigade 574; ordered to Damascus 754; air pilots 755–8, 769; in camp at Kiswe 788, 789; advance to Damascus 790; at Damascus 801, 804, 806, 807, 808

Australians SP22: 379, 381, 382, 789

Austrians: SP22: in wrecked Turkish train 410

AUTONOMY MOVEMENT SP22: 23–9

Auda Abu Tayi, Sheikh

SP22:177, 178; appearance 230; character 229, 230–1; TEL's view of 229, 658; career 230–1; meets Feisal 229; at Wejh 229–31, 233–4; teeth 230; plan to march to Akaba 233–4, 235, 240; on march to Akaba 243–4, 246, 247, 248, 249, 252, 253–4, 256, 258, 259, 261–3, 264–5, 266, 267, 268–9, 273–4, 275, 278, 279, 281, 282; and Nuri 282; at Ageila 292, 293; resumes march 293, 294; and Nasir 296; tells story in camp 297; TEL parodies story 297–9; camped with Nasir 301–2; visits son's grave 302; at Bair 302–3, 306; at Jefer 320; sings on march 323; at battle of Aba el Lissan 325–6, 328; march resumed 329, 330–2; returned to Guweira 340, 353; negotiates with Turks 352, 353–4, 355; TEL confronts 353–4; (377); camped at Jefer 383–6, 447–509; deals with tribal discontent 447, 450; at Jurf 533; at Tafileh 535, 536; at Waheida 602, 603; reconciled with TEL 610; at Aba el Lissan 610, 670; at Azrak 714; takes Ghazale 770, 771; (772, 775); at Tafas 776, 777; at Jebel Mania 786, 788; at Damascus 794–5, 798; ill.

Letters series and biography II: 33, 35; described by TEL, biog: 370-1, 396-7; joins Arab movement, biog: 369, 370-1, 392, 396-7, 399-401, 406, 409; negotiates with Turks, biog: 433-4, 1079; 797S, builds palace, biog: 515; at Tafas, biog: 557; at Damascus, biog: 561 

Augener (music publishers) I: 95, 96

Austen, Jane I: 180, 181

Australian forces: at Damascus, biog: 560, 563-4,1105-6,1106-7,1108-9

autogiro, futuristic, biog: 884-5

Avignon, France, biog: 47

Awad, Sherari camel-boy: SP22: scouting with TEL 441–2; in TEL's bodyguard 443–4; at Mertaha 452; (461); feud with Ahmed 466, 476; (472); fights and is punished 550–1; (581)

Awaisit, oasis SP22: 280

Awali, suburb of Medina: sacked by Turks SP22: 78; Eshref escapes from 151

Ayesha, daughter of Jellal el Lel SP22: 411

Ayot St Lawrence, Welwyn (Shaws' country home) I: 7, 38, 141-2, 144, 163, 165, 176; TEL visits I: 143, 164, 181, 182, 184, 185, 189, 191, 206, 208, 209; II: 11, 66, 87, 142, 151, 165, 168, 170, 171, 182 ; visits listed I: 212

Aziz el Masri: SP22: early negotiations with British 39; in Turkish army 39, 46, 90, 92; forms Arab Regular army at Rabegh 46, 53, 59, 98, 104, 105, 513; on visit to Jidda 46, 47, 58

Azmi, Adjutant-General at Damascus SP22: 798

Azrak 

SP22: 177, 300, 306, 307, 311, 367; described 464, 694, 713; plans to keep as desert base 432, 433, 434, 436; marching to 460; fort 464, 487, 491–2, 673, 674, 695, 708; Arabs move in 486, 487; mosque 488; Arab base 487–93, 502, 503, 549, 674; ghostly dogs 491; machine-gun section withdrawn from 596; (640, 641, 646, 653, 671, 672); cars arrive at 673; (677, 693, 694); ICC at 694–5; troops set off for 700, 701–2, 703; aeroplanes at 707; TEL arrives, Sept. 1918 707–8; Allied camp 707–9, 710–15; troops arrive 712–14; march out 715; hospital 752–3; TEL at, Sept. 1918 752–3, 758–9; Diary Nov. 1917 818; Aug. 1918 819; Sept. 1918 819, 820

biog: 413, 453, 454-5, 457, 459, 461, 516, 537; castle, 538-9; Arab forces assemble at, 1918 528, 530, 542-3, 545


 

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Key

SP22: Seven Pillars of Wisdom, The Complete 1922 Text

Wilson: Jeremy Wilson, Lawrence of Arabia, The Authorised Biography

Volumes in the T.E. Lawrence Letters series (titles in pale grey not yet published):

I: Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1922-1926

II:  Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1927

III: Bernard and Charlotte Shaw, 1928

IV: Bernard and Charlotte Shaw: 1929-35

V: E. M. Forster, F. L. Lucas and Frederic Manning

VI: Edward Garnett and David Garnett

VII: Robert Graves

VIII: John Brophy, John Buchan, and Siegfried Sassoon

IX: Henry Williamson

X: John Brophy, C. Day Lewis, C. M. Doughty, James Hanley, Noel Coward

XI: 1905-10 - letters to his family, D.G. Hogarth, E.T. Leeds, and C.M. Doughty

XII: Carchemish 1910-14- letters to his family, James Elroy Flecker,  D.G. Hogarth, E.T. Leeds, and C.M. Doughty and others

XIII: War Diaries and Letters 1914-18

XIV: Political and Diplomatic Correspondence 1918-1922

XV: Service correspondence, 1922-35

XVI: Advisers: D. G. Hogarth, Robin Buxton, Lionel Curtis, John Snow and Edward Eliot

XVII: Printers and publishers - Jonathan Cape, Sydney Cockerell, C. J. Cumberlege, Peter Davies, F. N. Doubleday, St. John Hornby, Ralph Isham, Bruce Rogers, Raymond Savage, and others

XVIII: Artists, including Herbert Baker, C.F. Bell, H.S. Ede, Eric Kennington, Augustus John, Paul Nash, William Roberts, William Rothenstein, and Kathleen Scott. 

XIX: Women: Nancy Astor, Lil Black, F. E. Hardy and others, including post-war letters to his mother, Sarah Lawrence.

XX: Journalists and Historians. R. D. Blumenfeld, Geoffrey Dawson, B. H. Liddell Hart, Lowell Thomas

XXI: George Brough, Edward Elgar, Ernest Thurtle, A.P. Wavell and others.

Last revised: 1 August 2006
 

 

T.E. Lawrence Studies is edited by Jeremy Wilson. Its costs are sponsored by Castle Hill Press.