More than a century after a soldier wrote a letter to his mother as he sailed to war and his death, it has been discovered in a bottle washed up on a remote beach.
Private Malcolm Alexander Neville's light-hearted note, penned on August 15, 1916, was found on Wharton Beach, near Esperance, about 750 kilometres southeast of Perth.
"Having a real good time," the letter pulled from inside a glass Schweppes bottle said.
