Walter Tull Officer

Walter Tull, officer, seated with five other officers, probably taken in France in the second half of 1917 or early 1918. 2nd Lt Walter Tull served in France from August to October 1917; was then posted to the Italian Front, returning to France in March 1918 where he was killed in the Second Battle of the Somme. He is believed to be one of the first black infantry officers to lead British troops in the First World War, despite army regulations that prohibited a person of 'non-European descent' from undertaking officer training. (Photo by Walter Tull Archive/Finlayson Family Archive/Getty Images)