On August 15, 1916, Private Malcolm Alexander Neville penned this two-page note to his mother, reporting on his voyage toward Europe and asking whoever found the bottle to deliver it to her.

A bottle containing messages from World War I soldiers headed to the Western Front were recently found on an Australian beach, more than a century after they were written.

The bottle contained two 109-year-old messages from soldiers that had been placed in a Schweppes bottle and tossed overboard while they were on their way to Europe. They were found on October 9 on Australia’s Wharton Beach by Debra Brown and her family while they were picking up trash along the beach.

They took the bottle home and read the messages inside. Since reading the notes, the families of both of the soldiers have been con

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