{"id":203565,"date":"2025-10-30T18:34:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T14:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=203565"},"modified":"2025-10-31T18:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:05:46","slug":"wwi-soldiers-bottle-letters-found-on-australias-coast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/203565\/","title":{"rendered":"WWI soldiers\u2019 bottle letters found on Australia\u2019s coast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Two messages in a bottle written by Australian soldiers early in their voyage to France in World War I have been discovered more than a century later on Australia’s coast, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

The bottle was found on Wharton Beach near Esperance, Western Australia, during a beach cleanup on Oct. 9. Inside were pencil letters from Privates Malcolm Neville, 27, and William Harley, 37, dated Aug. 15, 1916.<\/p>\n

Their troop ship, HMAT A70 Ballarat, had left Adelaide three days earlier, bound for the Western Front. Neville was killed in action a year later; Harley survived the war but died in 1934 from cancer his family believed came from being gassed in the trenches.<\/p>\n

Neville asked the finder to deliver his note to his mother in Wilkawatt, South Australia. Harley, whose mother was dead, said the finder could keep his.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Two messages in a bottle written by Australian soldiers early in their voyage to France in World War I have been discovered more than a century later on Australia’s coast, Euronews writes. The bottle was found on Wharton Beach near Esperance, Western Australia, during a beach cleanup on Oct. 9. Inside were pencil letters from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":203093,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203566,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203565\/revisions\/203566"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}