SuitabookWalter Tull’s Scrapbook
Michaela Morgan
- Reading
- Read alongside the child, pausing at the transitions from orphanage to football and from football to war.
- Themes
- Achievement and recognition: Walter Tull’s achievements in professional football and the British Army are presented alongside the stated failure to award his Military Cross recommendation because of his skin colour. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- A life shaped by loss and service: The life story moves from childhood in an orphanage through football and army service to Tull’s death while leading men at the Somme. The book does not clearly resolve its stance on this.
- Worth knowing
- Expect references to orphanhood, trench warfare, death at twenty-nine, and racial discrimination.