Fromelles, France (CNN) -- Lawrence Vincent was 21 years old when he joined the Australian Army. The year was 1915 and the world was at war. He waved goodbye to his 6-year-old brother and was shipped halfway around the world to the fields of France to fight the Germans, arriving the summer after he enlisted. His war lasted one hour. Vincent was one of thousands of young men ordered to charge into German machine guns on the night of July 19, 1916, outside this neatly kept French village. The defenders mowed down thousands, killing so many the allies could not recover all their dead.
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Thousands of soldiers died in a single night in a battle in France in 1916
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Mass graves containing 250 remains were found in 2008; 96 bodies have been identified
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A new cemetery was dedicated to the dead on Monday
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The Battle of Fromelles remains the deadliest 24 hours in Australian military history
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