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MP calls for Walter Tull to receive Military Cross

An MP has called for a World War One soldier who was one of England's first black professional footballers to be awarded the Military Cross 106 years after his death.

Walter Tull, who played for Tottenham Hotspur and Northampton Town, died aged 29 when he was shot on the battlefields in northern France in 1918.

He was Britain's first black Army officer to command white troops.

Lucy Rigby, the Labour MP for Northampton North, shared an open letter to Alistair Carns, the minister for veterans and people, calling for Mr Tull to be "rightly commemorated".