Black and British: A Forgotten History, from the acclaimed historian and star of 'Celebrity Traitors'

by David Olusoga

In May 1917, Walter Tull won his commission as second lieutenant. Not only had he been permitted to fight in Europe against a European enemy, he was now to lead white British troops into action. Later, in 1917, Second Lieutenant Tull took part in operations on the Italian Front, for which he was mentioned in dispatches. He was also recommended for the Military Cross. In March 1918, during the German spring offensive, he was killed in action near the French village of Favreuil. His body was never recovered from the battlefield, despite attempts by men of his unit to do so. He is listed as one of the missing, among the 34,785 names engraved into the Arras Memorial in Nord-Pas-de-Calais.