News Item: WWI soldiers’ messages in a bottle found on Australian beach more than 100 years later

[Salvage Sailor]

 “heaving and rolling, but we are as happy as Larry,” 

 

 

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — 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 Esperance in Western Australia state on Oct. 9, Deb Brown said on Tuesday.

 

WWI soldiers’ messages in a bottle found on Australian beach more than 100 years later