T E Lawrence - Ernest Cartwright

[Wander00]

When I was a teenager my Dad showed me carbon copy of a report written by my Uncle, Major (I think) Ernest Cartwright, to Gen Allenby about the activities of Col Lawrence. Sadly by the time my parents had died, the paper had disappeared. Also with the report was my uncle's Arab headdress, and his passport with most of the details obliterated in Indian ink and signed and stamped "Officially Expunged". Perhaps he was in some branch of Military Intelligence. I have never come across my uncle's name in any reading about Lawrence or the desert war; I wonder if anyone else has

[Ghazala]

Your post is running on the current TEL thread.. Where you now have two replies. I would delete this one.