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1916
Sergeant Henry Robinson, Bombardier William Klintworth, and Gunner Edward Morgan, of the 55th Siege Battery, Australian Garrison Artillery, were killed at Mont St Eloy, France. They became the first Australians to die from direct enemy action on the Western Front in the Great War.
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1917
German troops along the central portion of the Western Front began a strategic withdrawal to the new Hindenburg Line, shortening the line by 25Km.
