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Walter Tull – still not recognised one hundred years after his heroic death
PETER FROST remembers the first black professional footballer and the first black British Army officer to command white troops. He died one hundred years ago
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I HAVE written before about Walter Tull, who was one of Britain’s first black professional footballers and a first world war hero — the first ever black officer to lead white British troops into battle.
He died exactly one hundred years ago this Sunday.
The one thing that has always puzzled me and many others is why Walter Tull has never been as well recognised as his many achievements deserve. Why did he never get the Military Cross he was nominated for twice and clearly so richly deserved?
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