Over 100 years and a second World War later, two bottled letters from World War I soldiers have been discovered.
According to the Australian Broadcasting Company, resident Debra Brown found the lost messages washed up on the shores in her hometown of Wharton Beach.
The letters, which were bundled together in a single bottle, were written by Pvt. Malcolm Alexander Neville and Pvt. William Kirk Harley, and are dated 1916. Brown was able to track down the families of the two soldiers, and has been in contact with Neville’s great-nephew and Harley’s granddaughter.
“We are all absolutely stunned,” says Harley’s granddaughter Anne Turner. “There are five grandchildren who are still alive.”