YOUTHFUL FRENCH HERO.
BOY WHO DEFIED GERMANS. Little Roger Bavonx. aged eight, who I has received the War Cross for defying the 1 Germans, has been interviewed at his : home in Pirmoin, where a reported found his father, who is a farmer and a lieuj tenant, driving a pair of oxen attached to I a mowing machine. It appears that Rosier was only three | and a-half years old when i n 1914 he refused to salute a group of German soldiers i t?i7 a playing in the street with ether j children who all ran awav when the Ger ! mans appeared. Ordered to bid them goodday Roger simply looked down and held | his tongue, afterwards whv he infused he said : "Because thev were Prossians. ' ! This incident occurred at Saint-Die When on September 15, 1914, the French retook the town Roger in spite of the bombardment which was in progress ran to wards the first Freeh troops shoutincr Mamma here are the French " fie his been adopted as the child of this regiment' , and is No. 8768 of the 43rd battalion of : Chasseurs a. pied.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17270, 20 September 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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184YOUTHFUL FRENCH HERO. New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17270, 20 September 1919, Page 2 (Supplement)
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