“DIGGERS’” MASCOT
MEETS WITH FATAL ACCIDENT FRENCH ORPHAN’S ROMANTIC CAREER. WOUNDED TWICE IN THE WAR. [United Press Assn.—By CableCopyright.) [Australian and N.Z. Press Assn.] (Received 25. 9.55 a m.) Melbourne, May 25. Henri Hermene Tovell, a French war orphan and a 'Diggers’ ” mascot, died as a collision between hj s motor-cycle and a taxi-cab in Spring street. Toveli's father wab killed in Flanders in 1915. and his mother was killed by German raiders, leaving Henri an orphan for five years. He was rescued from the ruins and became the mascot of the Fourth Squadron of the A.F.C. He wandered trom one unit to another on the battlefield and was wounded on two occasions. When the Armistice was signed he was cleverly smuggled aboard a troop vessel to Australia, in a sack containing leave- of bread'
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 138, 25 May 1928, Page 5
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