WWI message in a bottle found on Australian beach

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A message in a bottle - written by two Australian soldiers on their way to fight in the First World War in 1916 in Europe- has been found more than a hundred years later. In his message one of the soldiers, Private Malcolm Neville, told his mother that the food on board was "real good" and that they were "as happy as Larry". Months later, he was killed in action at the age of 28. The other soldier, 37-year-old Pte William Harley, wrote this: “Somewhere in the Bight. may the finder be as well as we are at the present.". Deb Brown is from western Australia, her daughter discovered the bottle on the beach. Ann Turner from Melbourne, is the granddaughter of Private William Harley.