Walter Tull: From Footballer to Soldier
<p>In 1876 Daniel Tull, a former slave from Barbados, moved to Britain and settled in Folkestone. There he found work as a joiner and married a local girl, Alice Palmer. Together they had five children, including a son called Walter in 1888.</p>
<p>Walter’s childhood was not an easy one. In 1895, when he was just seven, his mother died. His father soon married Clara, Alice Palmer’s niece, but by 1897 Daniel too was dead, succumbing to heart disease. Unable to support all the children on her own, Clara was forced to place Walter and one of his brothers, Edward, in a Methodist-run orphanage in Bethnal Green.</p>
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