We could name the toilets after Ron Henwee..
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Walter Tull
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We could name the toilets after Ron Henwee..
I remember his aerial battles.
Crawley
Board Legend
Ouch!
lurker of old
Gus Poyet
Glad his story is getting the recognition it deserved. He must have been a very special man to get the respect and promotion he did. And almost certainly a hero too....
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
My thoughts are that the right place for Spurs to honour him would be in the new club museum as part of the new stadium. This could be done in two ways IMO:
1. As a highlight in a general piece about our players and staff members who served their country in the war
2. As part of a general history of our non white players.
1. As a highlight in a general piece about our players and staff members who served their country in the war
2. As part of a general history of our non white players.
glasgowspur
Luka Modric
There's a good article online at the BBC.
spursfan1976
Willem Korsten
Nice Article on the BBC website, with bits about our former players Walter Tull & Jimmy Seed - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-sh/the_last_pass
johnola
Jermaine Jenas
Thanks for posting the BBC article. Looking forward to see what they do with Walter Tulls story- which is absolutely amazing.
Well I know intimately the story of a great uncle of my own who died in the Somme. How he joined underage through to how he died in a trench attack in 1917. And the sadness and long long impact his death effect had on our family.
But Tulls story is so much bigger than this and well worth telling.
Well I know intimately the story of a great uncle of my own who died in the Somme. How he joined underage through to how he died in a trench attack in 1917. And the sadness and long long impact his death effect had on our family.
But Tulls story is so much bigger than this and well worth telling.
glasgowspur
Luka Modric
https://www.pagesofthesea.org.uk/beaches/ayr-beach/
Walter tull being commerated at Ayr beach.
My wife found this and is as pleased as punch.
Walter tull being commerated at Ayr beach.
My wife found this and is as pleased as punch.
johnola
Jermaine Jenas
Saw these on the news but not this one. The campaign is working- I mean I would have recognised him from that image.
nelto
Sergei Rebrov
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...officer?utm_source=pocket-newtab-global-en-GB
A historian believes he may have uncovered clues about where Britain’s first black army officer was laid to rest.
Walter Tull served in the first world war as a second lieutenant, leading men into battle at a time when the army forbade a person of non-European descent becoming an officer.
As well as being one of the most celebrated black British soldiers of the war, Tull was also one of the first black professional football players in England, playing for Tottenham Hotspur and later Northampton Town while overcoming racial discrimination.
He died aged 29 while leading an attack during the second Battle of the Somme on the Western Front on 25 March 1918.
Historic accounts of the event describe how Tull’s friend Pte Thomas Billingham, a fellow footballer and goalkeeper for Leicester Fosse, saw him killed and tried to retrieve his body so he could have a proper burial.
Despite the best efforts of his men, Tull’s body was never recovered and his family believed he lay somewhere in a field in the Somme.
However, research by the military historian Andy Robertshaw points to unmarked graves at Heninel-Croisilles Road cemetery in northern France where Tull may have been buried.
Tull’s grandnephew Edward Finlayson, from Edinburgh, said it was possible he had been buried, among others, by the Germans when the ground was lost to enemy forces.
“Andy’s research and his knowledge of events of that day is extraordinary for us as a family,” he said.
“What’s striking to me is how Andy’s research is able to reconstruct what happened that day. To me it’s remarkable and very interesting.
“What we know from newspaper accounts is Tom Billingham, in Walter’s group of men, tried to carry his body but because of the intensity of the onslaught he couldn’t.
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“This German [offensive] we know was hugely intense.”
Finlayson said the family could not be absolutely certain that his body was buried at the site as the graves could not be dug up, but added: “Up until this recent information we had no reason to believe his body was identified or buried.”
Walter Tull: football's hidden pioneer whose story everyone should know
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Tull is remembered on the memorial wall in the Faubourg d’Amiens cemetery in Arras, along with 35,000 soldiers whose bodies were never recovered or lie in unidentified graves.
There is also a statue commemorating him in Northampton.
In his research, Robertshaw, who has worked with as a military adviser on films including Sam Mendes’s 1917 and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, cross-referenced the War Graves Commission’s work and the regimental war diaries.
His findings are highlighted in the podcast Amazing War Stories with Bruce Crompton.
• This article was amended on 9 November 2020 to clarify details of the Faubourg d’Amiens cemetery memorial wall.
A historian believes he may have uncovered clues about where Britain’s first black army officer was laid to rest.
Walter Tull served in the first world war as a second lieutenant, leading men into battle at a time when the army forbade a person of non-European descent becoming an officer.
As well as being one of the most celebrated black British soldiers of the war, Tull was also one of the first black professional football players in England, playing for Tottenham Hotspur and later Northampton Town while overcoming racial discrimination.
He died aged 29 while leading an attack during the second Battle of the Somme on the Western Front on 25 March 1918.
Historic accounts of the event describe how Tull’s friend Pte Thomas Billingham, a fellow footballer and goalkeeper for Leicester Fosse, saw him killed and tried to retrieve his body so he could have a proper burial.
Despite the best efforts of his men, Tull’s body was never recovered and his family believed he lay somewhere in a field in the Somme.
However, research by the military historian Andy Robertshaw points to unmarked graves at Heninel-Croisilles Road cemetery in northern France where Tull may have been buried.
Tull’s grandnephew Edward Finlayson, from Edinburgh, said it was possible he had been buried, among others, by the Germans when the ground was lost to enemy forces.
“Andy’s research and his knowledge of events of that day is extraordinary for us as a family,” he said.
“What’s striking to me is how Andy’s research is able to reconstruct what happened that day. To me it’s remarkable and very interesting.
“What we know from newspaper accounts is Tom Billingham, in Walter’s group of men, tried to carry his body but because of the intensity of the onslaught he couldn’t.
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“This German [offensive] we know was hugely intense.”
Finlayson said the family could not be absolutely certain that his body was buried at the site as the graves could not be dug up, but added: “Up until this recent information we had no reason to believe his body was identified or buried.”
Walter Tull: football's hidden pioneer whose story everyone should know
Read more
Tull is remembered on the memorial wall in the Faubourg d’Amiens cemetery in Arras, along with 35,000 soldiers whose bodies were never recovered or lie in unidentified graves.
There is also a statue commemorating him in Northampton.
In his research, Robertshaw, who has worked with as a military adviser on films including Sam Mendes’s 1917 and Steven Spielberg’s War Horse, cross-referenced the War Graves Commission’s work and the regimental war diaries.
His findings are highlighted in the podcast Amazing War Stories with Bruce Crompton.
• This article was amended on 9 November 2020 to clarify details of the Faubourg d’Amiens cemetery memorial wall.
mephitis
Niko Kranjcar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/58992003
Walter Tull: Pioneering black player inducted into National Football Museum Hall of Fame
Excellent (but not before time)
Walter Tull: Pioneering black player inducted into National Football Museum Hall of Fame
Excellent (but not before time)