Messages in bottle written by World War I soldiers in 1916 found on Australian beach: "Absolutely stunned"

October 29, 2025

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Inside the glass were cheerful letters written in pencil by Privates Malcolm Neville, 27, and William Harley, 37, dated Aug. 15, 1916.

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 ju... [3529 chars]

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