Sentence examples for on active service from inspiring English sources

Throughout the war, the 28th lost six men killed on active service and one wounded.

He said: 'I signed on the dotted line, so no one can really complain when I'm killed on active service.' "I can understand him saying that.

Months later he was arrested on active service and was sentenced to 14 years for possessing one handgun.

The department of veterans affairs, meanwhile, released an independent study estimating that one in three women had experience of military sexual trauma while on active service.

He went on active service in Chechnya.

The narrow argument is whether UK human rights laws apply to soldiers on active service abroad.

The death of his Mosquito pilot brother, Lionel, on active service in 1944 devastated the family.

Gothic soldiers on active service also received rations, either in kind or in the equivalent cash.

With the British army no longer on active service, the police are now in charge.

He died young, about 410 bc, probably on active service at the Hellespont.

During the fighting, it suffered lost 843 killed in action or died on active service and 1,628 wounded.