In a 1909 Tottenham Hotspur team photograph, Walter Tull sits cross-legged in the middle of the front row. He went on to play for Northampton Town before joining the British Army in December 1914. The National Archives
The son of a Barbadian father and a mother from Kent, Tull served in the Middlesex Regiment. In 1917 he was commissioned as a second lieutenant, becoming one of the first Black men to receive a commission in the British Army. National Army Museum
Tull was killed in action in France on 25 March 1918, less than eight months before the Armistice. His name is recorded on the Arras Memorial.
This Armistice Day, JAM Radio remembers Tull and others with Caribbean roots who served in the First World War.
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