Jack the baboon mascot

Thanks to My [confined] Space  for this great pic and biog of Jackie, the baboon mascot of the South African Brigade fighting in France in 1918.

There's a reference to Jackie, or Jack to The Times, at the end of a long report on troop morale from April 1918  (you'll have to click on the "read plain text" link at the bottom of the article viewer because the report goes over two pages):

A curious detail of the casualties is that in one of the base hospitals now there lies in (or at least on) a bed, with other honourably wounded heroes, one Jack the Baboon, the mascot of the South African Brigade. He lost a leg and is wounded in one arm, but he has stood an operation and treatment well and is said to be a most amenable and gentle patient.