DIGGERS' MASCOT DIES
French War Orphan Rescued By Australians. DEATH FOLLOWS ACCIDENT. (Received 11 a.m.) MELBOURNE, this day. Henri Hermene Tovell, a French war orphan and the Diggers' mascot, died as a result of a collision between his motor cycle and a taxi-cab in Spring Street, Melbourne. M. Tovell's father was killed in Flanders in 1915, and his mother killed by German raiders, thus leaving Henri an orphan at five years. He was rescued from some ruins and became the mascot of the Fourth Squadron, Australian Flying Corps.
He wandered. from one unit to another on the 'battlefield and was wounded on two occasions, and when the Arrristice was signed he was cleverly smuggled aboard a troop vessel to Australia in a sack containing loaves of bread.
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Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 7
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DIGGERS' MASCOT DIES
Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 7
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