The Footballers' Battalion's Story

Oct 20, 2020 ... One report in the Football Star, headlined “Football and the Colour Prejudice”, is thought to be the first time racial abuse was mentioned in a ... Walter was a keen footballer and in 1908 he was signed up for a local amateur side, Clapton FC. He was later spotted by Tottenham Hotspur and signed ... 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 ... Walter Tull (28 April 1888 - 25 March 1918) was a professional footballer and British Army officer. His father was Barbadian, his mother was from Kent. He ... TULL100: War Historian Jon Cooksey tells us about the life of Walter Tull. Northampton Town Football Club · 4:20 · TULL100: BBC Radio Northampton's Graham ... Oct 19, 2021 ... Walter Tull inducted into Hall of Fame ... Walter Tull, one of Britain's first black professional footballers, has been posthumously inducted into ... Jun 5, 2013 ... Walter Daniel Tull (1888 - 1918) - first established his sporting credentials at Forest Gate's Clapton FC, in the years before the first World War. Only five of the ten chapters are dedicated to examining Tull's childhood, football and military careers. Indeed, Walter's story is all over by p.47 of the ... Oct 31, 2012 ... Black footballer and army captain Walter Tull died at the Somme, but he never got his medal for bravery. Author Michael Morpurgo tells ... Apr 12, 2018 ... And here, we have Walter Tull, a Black Briton. He was born in Folkestone and he played football for Northampton Town and Tottenham Hotspur.