WWI Soldiers' Messages Found in Australia After 109 Years
Letters from WWI soldiers en route to France, over a century old, offer a poignant glimpse into their journey.
The Brown family discovered a bottle containing the letters on October 9 at Wharton Beach in Western Australia.
"We do a lot of cleaning up on our beaches and so would never go past a piece of rubbish. So this little bottle was lying there waiting to be picked up,"
said Deb Brown, who found the bottle with her husband Peter and daughter Felicity.
The letters, written in pencil by Privates Malcolm Neville, 27, and William Harley, 37, are dated August 15, 1916.
Author's summary: WWI soldiers' letters found in Australia after 109 years.