DIGGERS’ MASCOT
DEATH IN MELBOURNE. SMUGGLED TO AUSTRALIA. Melbourne, May 25. Henri Hermene Tovell, a French war orphan and 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 bis 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 from one unit to another on the battlefield, and was wounded on two occasions, and when the Armistice was signed he was cleverly smuggled aboard a troop vessel to Australia in a sack containing loaves of bread.—Australian Press Association.
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Southland Times, Issue 20496, 26 May 1928, Page 7
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119DIGGERS’ MASCOT Southland Times, Issue 20496, 26 May 1928, Page 7
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