Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War The Dial Press was supposedly so inspired by

was supposedly so inspired by Wycliffe that he was at once galvanized into action

With no father and a dope fiend for a mother

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Black Tommies: British Soldiers of African Descent in the First World War The Dial Press was supposedly so inspired byBlack Tommies is the first book entirely dedicated to the part played by soldiers of African descent in the British regular army during the First World War. If African colonial troops have been ignored by historians, the existence of any substantial narrative around Black British soldiers enlisting in the United Kingdom during the First World War is equally unknown, even in military circles. Much more material is now coming to light, such as the oral