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Reference WMO/131346

Address:

Dover Town Hall

Biggin Street

Dover

CT16 1DW

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Roadside
Description: Figure sculpture
Materials:
  • Metal Bronze
  • Stone Granite
Lettering: Inscribed on a plaque
Conflicts:
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: Bronze statue of young boy on plinth which records both World Wars. This war memorial includes, or is solely dedicated to, Walter Daniel John Tull. Walter was born on 28th April 1888 in Folkestone to a father from Barbados and a mother from Kent. He started playing professional football in 1908 and was the second person of African-Caribbean mixed heritage to play in the English Football League’s top division and the first of African descent to play for Rangers when stationed in Scotland. He joined the 17th (1st Football) Batt of the Middlesex Regt as a Lance-Corporal at the start of World War I. He suffered shell shock after service in France but was back in action in 1916 and participated in the Battle of the Somme. Following officer training he served in the 23rd (2nd Footballers) Batt of the Middlesex Regt as a 2nd Lieutenant. Tull is believed to be the first African-Caribbean mixed heritage man to lead white troops into battle for the British Army. When promoted in 1917, army rules technically forbade a ‘person of colour’ being commissioned as an Officer. He died on 25 March 1918, aged 29, during the Second Battle of the Somme and is commemorated at the Arras Memorial to the Missing.
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