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World War I soldiers messages found in bottle on Australian beach over 100 years later

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. Inside the clear, thick glass were cheerful letters written in pencil by Privates Malcolm Neville, 27, and William Harley, 37, dated Aug. 15, 1916.(Deb Brown via AP) The Brown family found the Schweppes-brand bottle just above the waterline at Wharton Beach near Esperance in Western Australia state on Oct. 9, Deb Brown said on Tuesday. Her husband Peter and daughter Felicity made the find during one of the family’s regular quad bike expeditions to clear the beach of trash....


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