Word: aircraftman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many as a masterpiece, his own monumental, turgid and mystic Seven Pillars of Wisdom became the bible of a widespread cult of Lawrence admirers, whose most romantic ideals were justified when their unpredictable hero renounced the world at the pinnacle of his fame to join the R.A.F. as lowly Aircraftman Ross...
...priest. He worked in a country parish, in a quietly rich London church and among the rough poor of London. He went to India to work quietly in Calcutta and Bombay as an obedient priest. War came, and he joined the R.A.F., not as a chaplain but as an aircraftman, since he believed that he could not, as a priest, exhort others to fight. But many operations had left him weak. He fell sick again and went back to South Africa...
...took six months for Lawrence to be discovered and tossed out-the Air Ministry considered his enlistment alarmingly unconventional. But in those six months Lawrence had captured all the impressions he needed for a corrosive study of barracks life. Later, he talked his way back into the R.A.F. as Aircraftman T. E. Shaw (he took the name legally), and claimed to wish no other life. But before his death in a motorcycle accident in 1935, he brought together his old barracks notes, and some thoughts on military comradeship, in The Mint. By Lawrence's instructions...