DIGGERS’ MASCOT.
MEETS DEATH IN MOTOR SMASH. Melbourne, May 25. Henri Ilermene Novell, a French war orphan and a Diggers’ mascot, died as the result of a collision between his motor-cycle and a taxicab in Spring Street. Novell's father was killed in Flanders in 1915, and his mother was killed by German raiders, leaving Henri an orphan of live years. He was rescued from ruins and became the mascot o'f the Fourth Squadron of the A.FvC.
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.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3797, 26 May 1928, Page 2
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115DIGGERS’ MASCOT. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 3797, 26 May 1928, Page 2
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