WHY "PRIVATE SHAW"
T. E. Lawrence dropped in for tea one day at the house of Bernard Shaw, the famous dramatist. One 'of the ladies present glanced at him admiringly. He looked very young, with his light hair, delicate complexion, and small, slender frame. He might have been a boy from preparatory school. The lady turned to Mrs. Shaw, "What an intelligent-looking son you have!" she exclaimed. Lawrence howled with delight when he heard this, and swore that he would thereafter be known as Shaw, since he had been inadvertently adopted into the dramatist's family. The result was that when he soon afterwards hid himself in the Tank Corps he enlisted as Private Shaw.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 108, 8 May 1937, Page 26
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