DIGGERS’ MASCOT KILLED.
FRENCH WAR ORPHAN. VICTIM OF A COLLISION. INCIDENT IN GREAT WAR. (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Australian Press Association.) (Received May 25, 9.55 a.m.) MELBOURNE, May 25. Henri Ilermene Tovell, a French war orphan, and the diggers’ mascot, died as the result of a collision be'tween his motor cycle and a taxi cab in Spring Street. Tovell’s father was killed in Flan-,-ders in 1915, and his mother was killed by German raiders, leaving ” Henri an orphan of 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 or. two occasions, and when the Armistice was signed he was cleverly smuggled aboard a troopship bound for Australia, in a sack containing loaves of bread.
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Waikato Times, Volume 103, Issue 17411, 25 May 1928, Page 7
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