Soldiers Sent Messages in a Bottle Before Going to Battle. A Family Just Found Them on a Beach

A family who were cleaning trash at a local beach found a major historical artifact in the sand: an old glass bottle ...
KLFY News 10

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

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 ...
Associated Press

Australia’s iconic beach boxes lack the comforts of home but can cost more than a house

The iconic, brightly painted coastal sheds in and around Melbourne, Australia, are a quirky real estate mix: absolute beachfront views, but lacking basic features including a bedroom, bathroom, ...

Post-COVID plan for paid spots on Australia's Bondi divides sunseekers

A proposal by a private club to cordon off a section of Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach has divided local residents and sparked a debate on changes to public spaces in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic ...

Beachcomber Finds WWI Soldiers’ Messages in a Bottle

Messages in a bottle scrawled by soldiers as they shipped off to WWI and recently unearthed on a popular beach shed light on the soldiers' private lives.

WWI soldiers’ letters found in a bottle on Australian beach: What’s written inside

A family's beach clean-up in Western Australia unearthed a century-old message in a bottle. Two Australian WWI soldiers, ...
The Business Standard

World War I soldier's message in a bottle found on remote Australian beach after 109 years

The letter, written by Private Malcolm Alexander Neville on 15 August 1916 and sealed inside a glass Schweppes bottle, was found on Wharton Beach, near Esperance — about 750km southeast of Perth, ...