A small extra payment made to officers, and sometimes to privates, on active service in the field, to compensate partly the enhanced price of all necessaries.
Taking the field, quitting cantonments, and going on active service.
New equipment was given out to officers and men, as well as wirecutters, revolvers and other necessities of active service.
It would not mean a strengthening, but a distinct weakening, of the army, not to say a danger, if these untrained masses were at a crisis suddenly sent on active service.
There are other artillery camps, but none of the importance of Petewawa, for it is essentially an active service camp.
He was the fellow who had always expressed a wish to be a soldier, and go on active service; and now, before the first feeble spitting of the enemy's fire, all his courage was ebbing away.
When you're on active service, eat and sleep whenever you can," said Sergeant Sparks, munching away at his bully beef and biscuit.
The cry "nous sommes trahis" is never heard from his lips, and when called upon on active service, To live laborious days and shun delights, he rarely fails to do his duty.
Yet no European troops had had so much recent experience of active service.
I never thought there was as much marmalade in the world as I myself have consumed on active service!
He saw a great deal of active service, being with his corps in the Peninsula and at Maida, commanding at a later period the Artillery at Corfu and Gibraltar, and attaining before his death in 1865 the rank of Lieutenant-General.
Your majesty, are not the years of active service reckoned by the soldier as double?
The colonels and lieutenant-colonels are employed as chiefs of the staff in the different military districts of France, and in the divisions of the army on active service.
The engineers have, moreover, a prospect of employment of a civil nature when they return from active service; to lucrative positions of this kind they are not unfrequently appointed.
Once on active service it was not long before his great qualities made themselves recognised.
He fixed the number of Marshals at sixteen on the active list and added four others for those too old for active service.
It was not till two years later that the Emperor once again employed St. Cyr on active service.
Except for two years during which he was at home on parole, after the capture of Mannheim, the general was on active service in the Rhine valley till the peace of Campo Formio in 1797.
There was none to bring in the first place, and in the next, soldiers in active service in the field had other things to busy themselves with than reading up the details of the negotiations between the Commissioners of Exchange.
Though numbers of these were in active service, yet the wearing of a military garb did not necessarily imply this.
While on active service, drunk and singing in Wellington Street about nine p.
While on active service, refusing to obey an order.
Gosse as Commissary-General of the Fleet, during the nine months of the previous year in which Lord Cochrane had been in active service.
Agriculture, properly so called, must naturally be in a depressed condition in a country of which the tenth part of the population is continually either in active service, or in readiness to be called out.
When I was at Ekaterinodar, the capital of the country, during the season of field-work, and in a time of quiet, they reckoned fourteen regiments on active service.
In 1840, there were twenty-eight regiments in active service, fifteen of them in the Caucasus, with three companies of artillery.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "active service" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
