Andrew R. B. Simpson - Another Life: Lawrence After Arabia

In memory of my father

Wing Commander L.J. Simpson, R.A.A.F., R.Aux. A.F., D.F.C. (1918-2007)

Loved and remembered by many

One day I said to Lawrence:

The greatest employments are open to you if you are to pursue your new career in the Colonial Service.

He smiled his bland, beaming, cryptic smile and said: In a very few months my work here will be finished. The job is done, and it will last.

But what about you?

All you will see of me is a small cloud of dust on the horizon.

Winston Churchill to T.E. Lawrence on leaving the Colonial Office, January 1922. (From Great Contemporaries, W.S. Churchill, Thornton Butterworth, 1938)

The Publication of The Mint in America

Clouds Hill

The War in the Desert Abridgement

The Subscribers Edition Abridgement

The Revolt in the Desert Abridgement

The Anonymous Education Fund

To India

Miranshah

Scott-Paine

Major Nathans Moth

Henry Field

Bertram Thomas and the Empty Quarter

The Blackburn Iris Crash

First Trial: RAF 200 with two Brooke Engines, Stokes Bay

Second Trial: RAF 200 with two Brooke Engines, Plymouth

Third Trial: Experimental Open Hull with One Meadows Engine, Hythe

Fourth Trial: RAF 200 with Two Meadows Engines, Hythe

Towed Target Trials, Plymouth

The Power-Hyland System

A Trip to Scotland

Human Target

Letters to Weblin

The Fall-out with Graves

Putting the RAF Fleet on New Lines

The Marine Aircraft Experimental Establishment, Felixstowe

Admiral Boyle and the Meeting at Devonport

An Impersonation

Corporal Bradbury

The Marine Craft Unit, Bridlington

Clouds Hill Friends

The Return to Clouds Hill

Tuesday 21 May

A Possible Solution

A Final Gesture?

Could Lawrence have Survived?

Suicide

The Fascists?

The Zionists?

Rodney Leggs Theories

The Round Table

The Cliveden Set

Bruces Unpublished Accounts

Colin Wilson

If T.E. had Lived?

Appendices

1)Lawrences dental chart, 1923

2)Lawrences sketch for his dismissal of the Butcher and Laing Theory of the Axe Trial

3)Lawrences sketch of the double-bladed Mycenean axe

4)The Scythian bow

5)Lawrences dental chart, 1929

6)The Schneider Trophy Course, 1929

7)General arrangement drawing of the Blackburn Iris III

8)General arrangment drawing of the RAF 200 Seaplane

9)Diagram of the hard chine on a 63ft Scott-Paine boat

10)Diagram of an 18ft Bomb Carrying Dinghy

11)Comparison of a modern aerial photograph of the Clouds Hill road and a map of the Tank Park Road in 1935

12)Sketch map of the location of the 1935 Tank Park Road and the crash site in 2005

13)Illustration of Brough GW2275 rolling on impact

14)Lawrences diagram of the location of the Vulcan Ram Pump

15)Empire Day 1: plan of hull underside, front and rear elevations and side elevation of planing surfaces

16)Empire Day 2: side elevation and plan of hull top

Thanks to the late Arthur Russell, Colin Bradley of the Western Morning News, the late Frank Gordon, R. James Hargreave (for information on his grandfather Alec Dixon), Vera M. Hewitt, Ingrid Keith, Mrs. Betty Kent (for the reminiscences of Leslie Edward Gates), Philip Knightley (for permission to quote from the Knightley and Simpson files in the IWM), Terence Phillips (owner of 2, Polstead Road), Godfrey Runyard; Jeremy Whitehorn, Heartland Old Books, Tiverton (for proof reading ); Phyliss Whowell (for permission to use the material from T.E. Lives magazine); all those who replied to my advertisements., the staff of the Modern Papers Room, the Bodleian Library, Oxford; the staff of the Imperial War Museum Reading Room; Mike OHara (curator of Wareham Museum, Dorset), the Trustees of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom Trust (for copyright permission to quote from the letters of A.W. and T.E. Lawrence in the