US EditionWWI soldiers’ messages in a bottle found on Australian beach more than 100 years later
The letters, written during a voyage to WWI battlefields, were found intact after likely spending a century buried in sand, reuniting families of two Australian soldiers.
- 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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Messages placed in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers in 1916 were found better than a century later on the southwestern coast of the country.
A bottle thrown into the sea during the First World War, containing two letters of Australian soldiers leaving for France, has just been discovered. One hundred and nine years later, the texts were still kept in the small glass bottle.
The two soldiers sent the message in a bottle on their way to war. A century later, the letters have now been found – washed up on land. “It really feels like a miracle,” says a grandson of one of the soldiers.
While cleaning up a beach in Western Australia, the Brown family stumbled upon an unexpected find: a soda bottle containing letters from two soldiers who had set off by ship to Europe more than a century ago to fight in World War I.
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