“At Government House, Jerusalem, with Colonel Lawrence and the Emir Abdulla, 1921” (BRDW 1/2/82)

Photograph of WSC [Secretary of State for the Colonies], walking in a garden, with T E Lawrence [“Lawrence of Arabia”, later T E Shaw, WSC’s adviser on Arab affairs] and Abdullah ibn Hussein, Emir of Transjordan [later King Abdullah I of Jordan] a few paces behind. WSC is wearing an overcoat and homburg-type hat, while Lawrence is in a dark suit and Abdullah is in military uniform and headdress.

Mar 1921