Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Special Offer | $0.00

Join Today And Start a 30-Day Free Trial and Get Exclusive Member Benefits to Access Millions Books for Free!

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

People from Rushden: Walter Tull, H. E. Bates, Joe Ekins, Jim Walding, Thomas Britton, Bernard Vann, Bill Perkins

Books LLC
4.9/5 (15636 ratings)
Description:Chapters: Walter Tull, H. E. Bates, Joe Ekins, Jim Walding, Thomas Britton, Bernard Vann, Bill Perkins. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Senior club appearances and goalscounted for the domestic league only.* Appearances (Goals) Walter Daniel John Tull (28 April 1888 25 March 1918) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. He was the second person of Afro-Caribbean/mixed heritage to play in the top division of the Football League, the first Afro-Caribbean/mixed heritage outfield player in the top division of English football, and the first to be commissioned as an infantry officer in the British Army. His professional football career began after he was spotted whilst playing for his local amateur club, Clapton FC. Tull was brought up in a National Children's Home orphanage in Bethnal Green, London, along with his brother, following the death of their parents. He joined Tottenham in 1909, and transferred to Northampton Town in 1911, where he made 111 first-team appearances. During the First World War, Tull served in the Footballers' Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, and fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 30 May 1917 despite the 1914 Manual of Military Law specifically excluding "Negroes"/"Mulattos" from exercising command as officers. Tull fought in Italy in 191718, and was Mentioned in Despatches for "gallantry and coolness" while leading his company of 26 men on a raiding party into enemy territory. He returned to France in 1918, and was killed in action on 25 March during the Spring Offensive; his body was never recovered. Campaigners have called for a statue to be erected in his honour, and Northampton South MP Brian Binley ha...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=567737We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Rushden: Walter Tull, H. E. Bates, Joe Ekins, Jim Walding, Thomas Britton, Bernard Vann, Bill Perkins. To get started finding People from Rushden: Walter Tull, H. E. Bates, Joe Ekins, Jim Walding, Thomas Britton, Bernard Vann, Bill Perkins, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
44
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
115624658X

People from Rushden: Walter Tull, H. E. Bates, Joe Ekins, Jim Walding, Thomas Britton, Bernard Vann, Bill Perkins

Books LLC
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
Description: Chapters: Walter Tull, H. E. Bates, Joe Ekins, Jim Walding, Thomas Britton, Bernard Vann, Bill Perkins. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Senior club appearances and goalscounted for the domestic league only.* Appearances (Goals) Walter Daniel John Tull (28 April 1888 25 March 1918) was an English footballer who played as an inside forward for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town. He was the second person of Afro-Caribbean/mixed heritage to play in the top division of the Football League, the first Afro-Caribbean/mixed heritage outfield player in the top division of English football, and the first to be commissioned as an infantry officer in the British Army. His professional football career began after he was spotted whilst playing for his local amateur club, Clapton FC. Tull was brought up in a National Children's Home orphanage in Bethnal Green, London, along with his brother, following the death of their parents. He joined Tottenham in 1909, and transferred to Northampton Town in 1911, where he made 111 first-team appearances. During the First World War, Tull served in the Footballers' Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment, and fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. He was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 30 May 1917 despite the 1914 Manual of Military Law specifically excluding "Negroes"/"Mulattos" from exercising command as officers. Tull fought in Italy in 191718, and was Mentioned in Despatches for "gallantry and coolness" while leading his company of 26 men on a raiding party into enemy territory. He returned to France in 1918, and was killed in action on 25 March during the Spring Offensive; his body was never recovered. Campaigners have called for a statue to be erected in his honour, and Northampton South MP Brian Binley ha...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=567737We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with People from Rushden: Walter Tull, H. E. Bates, Joe Ekins, Jim Walding, Thomas Britton, Bernard Vann, Bill Perkins. To get started finding People from Rushden: Walter Tull, H. E. Bates, Joe Ekins, Jim Walding, Thomas Britton, Bernard Vann, Bill Perkins, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
44
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Books LLC
Release
2010
ISBN
115624658X

More Books

loader