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Kaffiyah owned and worn by T E Lawrence, 1916-1920s (c). Better known as Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence gave this silk headscarf to the artist John Cosmo Clark after he had sat for a portrait in 1922. Clark was one of the illustrators for Lawrence’s books, ‘Seven Pillars of Wisdom’ (1922) and ‘Revolt in the Desert’ (1927), and had fought with the Middlesex Regiment in World War One, winning the Military Cross in 1918. Associated with the World War One, Arab Revolt (1916-1918).

World War One, Arab Revolt (1916-1918)