Two messages in a bottle written by World War I soldiers more than a century ago washed up on a remote Australian beach, according to a report.

Debra Brown and her daughter Felicity discovered two letters, dating back to 1916, rolled inside a glass bottle in the dunes of Wharton Beach, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported Friday.

Two messages in a bottle written by World War I soldiers over a century ago washed up on a remote Australian beach. Debra Brown

The first letter written in pencil by South Australian soldier Malcolm Alexander Neville to his mother was signed off “somewhere at sea,” the outlet said.

Neville had been aboard the HMAS Ballarat ship, which set sail on Aug. 12 from Adelaide, just three days before he wrote the letter, records showed.

He told his mothe

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