Born in Kent Walter Tull (28 April 1888
- 25 March 1918) became one of Tottenham Hotspurs' top players. When he joined the Footballers' Battalion during the First World War his leadership & courage won him a commission & a recommendation for the Military Cross. But Walter wasn't just a great footballer & British officer. He happened to be black at a time when the rule book stated that only white men could become officers. In personal jottings photos & pictures this scrapbook brings alive a man who lived outside the limitations of his age
- from Walter's childhood in an orphanage through his footballing years at Spurs & Northampton to the Western Front highlighting the Christmas Day Truce of 1914 Walter's officer training
- pipe moustache & all!
- ending with his death on the Somme his memorials & his legacy.