May 19, 1935 –
Thomas Edward Lawrence died after an motorcycle accident on this date. Lawrence was a British officer who rose to prominence during the Arabian campaigns of the First World War. Clad in the magnificent white silk robes of an Arab prince … he hoped to pass unnoticed through London.
Alas he was mistaken.
He can also be seen in The Lion in Winter, Becket, What New, Pussycat and My Favorite Year.
One of the doctors attending Lawrence in hospital was the neurosurgeon, Hugh Cairns. As a result of Lawrence’s death, Cairns began a long study of what he saw as the unnecessary loss of life by motorcycle dispatch riders through head injuries and his research led to the use of crash helmets by both military and civilian motorcyclists.
And so it goes
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