Sentence examples for commonwealth forces from inspiring English sources

In the second world war, British and Commonwealth forces endured months of attacks from Erwin Rommel's Africa Corps.

At the time, there was an insurgency in Malaya, where the Commonwealth forces were fighting the Communists, and I was not anxious to get involved with that.

British and Commonwealth forces tried to take the fortified hill three times, but failed.

The tour finished at Tyne Cot Cemetery, the largest cemetery for Commonwealth forces in the world.

The majority were Americans who served in B17s along with pilots and crew from Britain and the Commonwealth forces including Australia, Canada and New Zealand, as well as from Poland and Czechoslovakia.

British Commonwealth forces remained in Korea until they were finally withdrawn in August 1957.

The situation of the Commonwealth forces, short of money and food, was difficult.

In the meantime, the Commonwealth forces after a long siege stormed and took Smolensk in 1611.

After the agreement was signed and Władysław declared tsar, the Commonwealth forces entered the Kremlin (1610).

Instead, British and Commonwealth forces landed unopposed and liberated those areas, and also temporarily occupied Thailand.

In 1953, with Commonwealth forces engaged in Korea and Malaya the museum began its current policy of collecting material from all modern conflicts in which British or Commonwealth forces were involved.