More than a century ago, two bored World War I Australian army recruits passed the time during their unit’s voyage to war-torn France by scrawling cheerful messages in pencil on scraps of paper.
They sealed up both notes in a single glass soda bottle and tossed it overboard, sailing away to their respective destinies — one to a graveyard, the other to a field hospital and ultimately back home.
Last month, as a family patrolled Wharton Beach in Western Australia on a mission to clean up trash, they made a shocking discovery: an antique Schweppe’s bottle containing the century-old letters.
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