US EditionWWI soldiers’ messages in a bottle found on Australian beach more than 100 years later
Letters from two WWI Australian soldiers were preserved for 109 years in a bottle found on Wharton Beach, revealing personal wartime experiences and family connections.
- Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers in 1916 were discovered on Wharton Beach in Western Australia.
- Deb Brown and her family found the bottle, and both letters were legible despite being wet.
- The letters were passed on to the soldiers' descendants, who expressed surprise at the find.
- One descendant, Neville, described the discovery as a miracle, saying it felt like their grandfather had reached out from the grave.
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WWI Soldiers' Messages Turn Up in Bottle on Beach
Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia's coast. The Brown family found the Schweppes-brand bottle just above the waterline at Wharton Beach near...
A family has found a bottle of messages inside written by two Australian soldiers during World War I. The Browns found the Schweppes brand bottle in Wharton Beach, in Western Australia on October 9, when they came to the beach to clean it. "We did a lot of cleaning on our beaches and we would never miss a piece of trash.So this small bottle was there waiting to be picked up," Deb Brown said.In the bottle there were two letters written in pencil …
A letter from 1916, discovered in Australia, reveals the fate of two soldiers during the First World War.
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An Australian family did not expect to make such a discovery during an outing to clean up a beach. By collecting waste, one object caught particular attention: a bottle with letters from soldiers who had gone to fight in Europe during the First World War.
In 1916 two Australian soldiers threw a bottle of two letters into the sea. Now it was discovered. The content does not only move the relatives.
WWI soldiers' messages found on Australian beach in a shored-up bottle
Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during World War I have been found more than a century later on Australia’s coast. One of the soldiers requested the bottle's finder deliver his letter to his mother at Wilkawatt, now a virtual ghost town in South Australia.
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