Walter Daniel John Tull (28 April 1888 – 25 March 1918) was an English professional footballer and British Army officer of Afro-Caribbean descent. He played as an inside forward and half back for Clapton, Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town and was the third person of mixed heritage to play in the top division of the Football League after Arthur Wharton and Willie Clarke. He was also the first black player to be signed for Rangers F.C. in 1917 while stationed in Scotland. During the First World War, Tull served in the Middlesex Regiment, including in the two Footballers' Battalions. He was commissioned as a second lieutenant on 30 May 1917 and killed in action on 25 March 1918. Early life Tull was born in Folkestone, Kent, the son of Barbadian carpenter Daniel Tull and Kent-born Alice Elizabeth Palmer. His paternal grandfather was a slave in Barbados. His maternal English grandmother was from Kent. He began his education at North Board School, now Mundella Primary School, Folkestone.In 1895, when Tull was seven, his mother died of cancer. A year later his father married Alice's cousin...

George Edward Kingsley Bemand (19 March 1892 – 26 December 1916) was one of a small number of officers in the British Army of partial African descent to serve in World War I. He was killed in action in France. George was born in Jamaica in 1892 to George Bemand Sr. and his wife Minnie. The family moved to London in 1908 on the RMS Lusitania, with the passenger list in New York recording Minnie and her sons as African. George attended Dulwich College and then in 1913 went to University College, London to study Engineering. At the start of the Great War he joined the University of London OTC and in 1915 successfully applied for a commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Royal Field Artillery; in his application, he declared himself to be of pure European descent.He was sent to France in August 1916 (his school records November 1915). He was killed by a shell on Boxing Day 1916 near Béthune, and is buried at Le Touret Military Cemetery.His brother Harold served in the ranks as a Gunner. Harold died of wounds in 1917. References ...