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This is the channel of phil vasili, writer, filmmaker and political activist. First 15 mins of bbc4 doc walter tull forgotten hero. Biography of walter tull by phil vasili london league publications is out in march 2018. Forgotten footballers who died in world war one remembered in new fund. The story of german soldier fritz walter is so outlandish it seems more myth than reality. Ww1 hero and one of britains first black footballers.

Second lieutenant walter tull was killed in 1918 aged 29. Forgotten britons from walter tull patrick matthew and. Walter tull led an assault on the german lines in 1918. This so called documentary purports to show what really transpired on walter tull s road to being an officer. Walter tull, first world war hero medal campaign home. Bbc sport the story of walter tull the forgotten hero in. News world world history inside the brothels that served the western front. He wrote his first booklength manuscript in his late teens. Walter tull and the black great war heroes of the british army. It seems odd that his story has been forgotten while tull has. It contains material about the history of black footballers in britain, especia.

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The war heroes who were abandoned by their home countries. A few days in, during the first battle of bapaume, tull was killed in action by a machinegun bullet that hit him in the head. This is the forgotten story of a footballer and war hero. He played as an inside forward and half back for clapton, tottenham hotspur and northampton town and was the third person of mixed heritage to play in the top division of the football league during the first world war, tull served in the. Walter daniel john tull 28 april 1888 25 march 1918 was an english professional footballer and british army officer of afrocaribbean descent. A new peace pitch has opened in folkestone in honour of one of britains first black footballers the pitch has been named in memory of first world war hero walter tull, who was born in. Walter tull a fallen heroin the july of 1916 walter tull took part in the major somme offensive.