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It has been bantered about that he never fully recovered from the alleged abuse, at the hands of the Turks.

The official story is that he swerved to avoid two boys on bicycles, I've no reason to doubt it. I think it is more likely that he was living on borrowed time and that finally ran out. A little known story about him is that he was in Reading station waiting for a train and he left the transcript of the Seven Pillars of Wisdom in the waiting room, it was never returned so he had to rewrite it again from memory.
 
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