DIGGERS' MASCOT
FRENCH WAR ORPHAN ACCIDENTALLY KILLED BEIEF LIFE'S KOMANCE United Press Association—By Electric Tel»----1 graph—Copyright. (Eeceived 25th May, 10 a.m.) MELBOURNE, This Day. Henri Hermene Tovell, a French war orphan and the Diggers' mascot, died as the result of a collision between his motor-cycle and a taxi:cab in Spring street. ; , Tovell's father was killed in Flanders in 1915 and his mother was killed by German raiders, leaving Henri, an 6rphan of five years. He was rescued from the ruins, and became the mascot of the Fourth Squadron of the Australian Flying Corps. He wandered from one Unit to another on tho battlefield, and even was wounded on two occasions. When the Armistice was signed he was cleverly smuggled aboard a troop vessel to Australia in a sack containing loaves of bread.
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 9
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132DIGGERS' MASCOT Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 122, 25 May 1928, Page 9
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