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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So on a Perth beach.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Money, a message in a bottle written by a World
War One soldier to his mum more than a century ago,
has been discovered in remote wa on a beach.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yeah, that's incredible, amazing. It's been floating around the ocean
for I have.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
No idea the rediscovery on Wharton Beach, which is near Esperance.
It's about six hundred k southeast of Perth. It dates
back to nineteen sixteen. It was uncovered by a family
collecting rubbish along the beach last week and the letter,
yet to be verified by historians, is written in pencil
on paper rolled into a glass bottle, written by South
(00:41):
Australian soldier Malcolm Alexander Neville to his mom, and it
was signed off somewhere at sea August fifteenth, nineteen sixteen,
as he sailed to Europe. So the Australian War Memorial
lists mister Neville from Regional South Australia as traveling on
board the HMAS Ballarat, which departed Adelaide on August twelve,
(01:02):
just a few days before the letter was obviously written.
It was thrown overboard just a few months before mister
Neville was He was actually killed in battle in France
April nineteen seventeen. He was aged twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So he's from Adelaide, so he's gone in the water.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
He's gone on in Adelaide, has floated around the Great
Australian bites, all the way around.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
To near Perth. Yeah, wow, all that sagn over one
hundred years World War One.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
He tells his mum that the food's been really good,
except for one meal which was buried at sea, accompanied
by a mouth organ band playing the Dead March. He said,
the troop ship Ballarat is heaving and baling, but we
are happy as larry your loving son Malcolm.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Wow, have they invented spam? Back then the food were
no dreadful? Would have been.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
In twenty eighteen, what is believed to be the oldest
known message in a bottle, dating back to eighteen eighty six,
was found near Esprince two. There you go, wow, there
you imagine that, just scouting along the beach and then
you find something as significant as that I threw.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I threw a bottle in once with it with a
note okay, and the next start I'd gone down.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The beach and it just flated back. Wrong. Tired, from
what have you found on the beach?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Somebody's wallet that had watched up?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Okay, didn't have a license or any iucation it had.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It was all in Chinese. Yeah, but we took it
to the local police stations and it had come all
the way down. It was Gada and it had come
all the way down.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
From the sunshine.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Wow, there you go.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
It lost it off a boat.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I was about to say, yeah, out on the water,
things get lost over over over the side of the boat,
on the side.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Of the boat when you're out of the water and.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You lose next exactly exactly, Oh, there you go. What
a distance. So from the Sunny coast, the Sunny coast
and it went down to the to koll and Gatta.
Look at that fantastic.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Wow. I don't know whether he actually came and collected it,
but that's what the police informed me.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Police found a briefcase on the beach, went am I
all the way from the Breva River.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It was mine.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You know the.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Story, Heidi, anybody that gets over in the drink, he
gets up there.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Rob's in Kenville, Go Rob, what have you found on
the beach? Good morning morning?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Morning's Stampa. Yeah, when I was about nine years old.
We're down the Gold Coast on the beach there and
I found a beautiful gold It was in the shape
of a tear drop and it had this beautiful dark
blue sapphire in it. So Dad said, come on, we'll
take it to the police station, which we did, and
he took my name and dad and mum's phone number,
(03:47):
and three months later they ran up and said, didn't
come and figure up no one claimed it. Still got
it to this day off a necklace.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Like a little pendant off a necklace. Wheah.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, and it was beautiful. Its worth about two one
hundred dollars now, wow, that's I don't know how much
it was worse then, but yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
They do do that, don't they. If you hand it
in and no one claims it, they will give it
back to.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You person for it.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I was listening to this show and there after.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
All minders keepers kinders keeper.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Well not always.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So I found a yacht at Redcliffe just straight after
the twenty eleven floods. Somebody else's not.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I couldn't keep it. Take it a yacht.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, that did happen after the floods. Didn't it because
a lot of them, you know, broke their moorings and
just got washed down the river by the flood borders,
I know, and people were trying to say, oh, jet.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Skis some pontoons. No, I would let me keep it,
No I.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
No, that's terrible. I was living at winter Manly at
that time, and the stuff that came up on the
foreshore was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I found a restaurant I'm from New Milton down washed down.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Amazing. What did you keep that? I said it to
mine the rules of the ocean.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That body probably tossed it in the Indian Ocean by
the sounds of it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Okay, well there you go. It's just extraordinary, extraordinary story.
So on a Perth beach.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Money, a message in a bottle written by a World
War One soldier to his mum more than a century ago,
has been discovered in remote wa on a beach.
Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yeah, that's incredible, amazing. It's been floating around the ocean
for I have.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
No idea the rediscovery on Wharton Beach, which is near Esperance.
It's about six hundred k southeast of Perth. It dates
back to nineteen sixteen. It was uncovered by a family
collecting rubbish along the beach last week and the letter,
yet to be verified by historians, is written in pencil
on paper rolled into a glass bottle, written by South
(00:41):
Australian soldier Malcolm Alexander Neville to his mom, and it
was signed off somewhere at sea August fifteenth, nineteen sixteen,
as he sailed to Europe. So the Australian War Memorial
lists mister Neville from Regional South Australia as traveling on
board the HMAS Ballarat, which departed Adelaide on August twelve,
(01:02):
just a few days before the letter was obviously written.
It was thrown overboard just a few months before mister
Neville was He was actually killed in battle in France
April nineteen seventeen. He was aged twenty eight.
Speaker 1 (01:16):
So he's from Adelaide, so he's gone in the water.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
He's gone on in Adelaide, has floated around the Great
Australian bites, all the way around.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
To near Perth. Yeah, wow, all that sagn over one
hundred years World War One.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
He tells his mum that the food's been really good,
except for one meal which was buried at sea, accompanied
by a mouth organ band playing the Dead March. He said,
the troop ship Ballarat is heaving and baling, but we
are happy as larry your loving son Malcolm.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
Wow, have they invented spam? Back then the food were
no dreadful? Would have been.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
In twenty eighteen, what is believed to be the oldest
known message in a bottle, dating back to eighteen eighty six,
was found near Esprince two. There you go, wow, there
you imagine that, just scouting along the beach and then
you find something as significant as that I threw.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
I threw a bottle in once with it with a
note okay, and the next start I'd gone down.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
The beach and it just flated back. Wrong. Tired, from
what have you found on the beach?
Speaker 4 (02:19):
Somebody's wallet that had watched up?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
Okay, didn't have a license or any iucation it had.
Speaker 4 (02:26):
It was all in Chinese. Yeah, but we took it
to the local police stations and it had come all
the way down. It was Gada and it had come
all the way down.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
From the sunshine.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Wow, there you go.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
It lost it off a boat.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
I was about to say, yeah, out on the water,
things get lost over over over the side of the boat,
on the side.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Of the boat when you're out of the water and.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
You lose next exactly exactly, Oh, there you go. What
a distance. So from the Sunny coast, the Sunny coast
and it went down to the to koll and Gatta.
Look at that fantastic.
Speaker 4 (03:02):
Wow. I don't know whether he actually came and collected it,
but that's what the police informed me.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Police found a briefcase on the beach, went am I
all the way from the Breva River.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It was mine.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
You know the.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Story, Heidi, anybody that gets over in the drink, he
gets up there.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Rob's in Kenville, Go Rob, what have you found on
the beach? Good morning morning?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Morning's Stampa. Yeah, when I was about nine years old.
We're down the Gold Coast on the beach there and
I found a beautiful gold It was in the shape
of a tear drop and it had this beautiful dark
blue sapphire in it. So Dad said, come on, we'll
take it to the police station, which we did, and
he took my name and dad and mum's phone number,
(03:47):
and three months later they ran up and said, didn't
come and figure up no one claimed it. Still got
it to this day off a necklace.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Like a little pendant off a necklace. Wheah.
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Yeah, and it was beautiful. Its worth about two one
hundred dollars now, wow, that's I don't know how much
it was worse then, but yeah, it's beautiful.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
Look at that.
Speaker 2 (04:06):
They do do that, don't they. If you hand it
in and no one claims it, they will give it
back to.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
You person for it.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
I was listening to this show and there after.
Speaker 2 (04:14):
All minders keepers kinders keeper.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Well not always.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
So I found a yacht at Redcliffe just straight after
the twenty eleven floods. Somebody else's not.
Speaker 1 (04:28):
I couldn't keep it. Take it a yacht.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Yeah, that did happen after the floods. Didn't it because
a lot of them, you know, broke their moorings and
just got washed down the river by the flood borders,
I know, and people were trying to say, oh, jet.
Speaker 1 (04:41):
Skis some pontoons. No, I would let me keep it,
No I.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
No, that's terrible. I was living at winter Manly at
that time, and the stuff that came up on the
foreshore was unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I found a restaurant I'm from New Milton down washed down.
Speaker 1 (04:59):
Amazing. What did you keep that? I said it to
mine the rules of the ocean.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That body probably tossed it in the Indian Ocean by
the sounds of it.
Speaker 2 (05:07):
Okay, well there you go. It's just extraordinary, extraordinary story.
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