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WWI Messages in a Bottle Just Washed Up on Australia’s Coast
The Browns were clearing debris along the waterline when the thick glass Schweppes-brand bottle caught their attention. Peter ...
Neville wrote that he and his comrades were, “Somewhere at Sea.” Harley wrote that they were, “Somewhere in the Bight,” referring to the Great Australian Bight. That’s an enormous open bay that begins ...
TWO messages in a bottle written by World War One soldiers more than a century ago have washed up on a beach in Australia. Debra Brown and her daughter Felicity made the remarkable discovery while ...
Two handwritten letters penned by Australian soldiers on their way to the battlefields of France during World War I have ...
Two Australian soldiers penned messages a few days into their experience of the First World War, which remained in this ...
WWI Soldiers' Bottled Letters Wash Ashore in Western Australia. Two letters penned by World War I soldiers were discovered ...
Two letters written by World War I soldiers were found sealed inside a bottle that washed ashore on a remote Western ...
MELBOURNE/SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands of people attended memorial services in Melbourne to mark the centenary of the Armistice ending World War One, shrugging off heightened security after Friday's ...
JERUSALEM (AP) — Australia's prime minister is in Israel for a re-enactment of a WWI battle where Australian and New Zealand troops triumphed over Ottoman forces in a charge that helped turn the tide ...
An Australian family found this bottle during a beach clean up. They could see the letters inside and took great care opening ...
What do displays of national pride mean when they are no longer accompanied by the mass shared grief that gave rise to them?
Messages in a bottle written by two Australian soldiers a few days into their voyage to the battlefields of France during ...
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