From PBS NewsHour.

Letters from a pair of World War I soldiers have been found in a bottle on a beach in Western Australia. The men wrote them just days after departing for Europe back in 1916. Their words are still legible more than a century later.
In one, Private Malcolm Neville tells his mother that: "The food is real good so far, with the exception of one meal which we buried at sea."

Another from Private William Harley wishes that the finder of his message "be as well as we are at present." A local family came across the bottle as they were cleaning up the beach earlier this month. One of the soldiers’ granddaughters called the discovery a miracle.

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