Mascot
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Mascot that accompanied Michael Gordon in the last two years of World War 2
“Michael Scott Campbell Gordon left NZ in 1915 to train as a Royal Flying Corp pilot in ‘The Great War’. He was just 17.
For the last two years of the war, every time he flew over the battlefields of France and Belgium he took with him this lucky charm, tucked into his leather flying helmet.
Safely returned to Taurapa Station, Ocean Beach, with its owner at the end of the war, this little treasure is now displayed by its new owner, his son, Michael Gordon.”
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