The image of Walter Tull will be part of the Cobbler in the Crowd scheme at the PTS Academy Stadium on Thursday.

Tull was born in Folkestone in 1888 and orphaned after the death of his English mother and his Barbadian father. He became a professional footballer and played for the Cobblers.

After war broke out, he served in the Footballers’ Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment and fought on the Somme. Commissioned in May 1917, Tull became the first mixed-race Army officer to command troops in a regular unit.

After fighting in Italy, he returned to the Western Front. On 25 March 1918, he was killed in action. Having no known grave, Tull is commemorated on the Arras Memorial and there is a memorial in his name at Sixfields.