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Walter Tull and the Missing Football (ISBN: 9781445188973) This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage ... Oct 26, 2022 ... Walter Tull (1888-1918) was a professional footballer and WWI soldier. Beginning his football career at Clapton FC at the age of 20, he was soon spotted and ... Oct 18, 2023 ... GFC School Students learn about Walter Tull. Walter Tull is a name that means little to most football fans. The trailblazing footballer and ... Il fut le troisième métis à jouer dans la première division de la Ligue de football anglaise après Arthur Wharton et Willie Clarke. Il est également le premier ... Jul 25, 2022 ... In 1914, at the start of the war, he signed up for the 17th (1st Football) Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment as a Lance Corporal. During his ... William Daniel John Tull was one of Britain's first Black infantry officers - a Black Briton in a society where there were few others. Mar 23, 2018 ... A posthumous Military Cross to be awarded to Walter Tull, the first black officer in the British Army and one of the first black professional footballers. English professional footballer Walter Tull (1888–1918) was the grandson of a slave in Barbados. During World War I, he became the first British-born person of ... He began playing for Clapton FC in 1908 and within a few months he had won winners' medals in the FA Amateur Cup, London County Amateur Cup and London Senior ... Jan 16, 2014 ... PETER FROST finds a memorial in Northampton with a sad story of a forgotten hero and a century of racism in football.