Jamaica-born public school boy British Army’s first black officer
The discovery of a war plaque has rewritten history books to reveal Walter Tull was not the first black British Army officer. Experts believed that Tull, an ex-Tottenham Hotspur footballer, was the first black man to be commissioned and also killed fighting in the Great War in 1918. But a plaque honouring Lieutenant Euan Lucie-Smith, of the … Read more