embarkation leave

In November 1941 the men were all issued embarkation leave.

I went with my mother to the station to say goodbye to Robert at the end of his embarkation leave.

Or if I go abroad before then will you marry me on my embarkation leave?'

He was on a short Embarkation Leave and told the whole story once again to Clarissa.

John told Anne that this was embarkation leave and he would soon be going to France but warned her not to mention it to anyone.

After returning from embarkation leave on 15 May, the unit was sent to Tunisia for operations in the Mediterranean.

Well a couple of weeks and I was off on embarkation leave, and then I was back for about a week and we were gone.

It happened on his embarkation leave, and he was out of the country on a transport for North Africa before the police got on to him.

In January Joe came home on embarkation leave and was more free to see Sarah because his father was so engrossed in the baby.

Later in the month Terry arrived home again on a short embarkation leave, full of stories of the Irish Guards leaving for, he thought, Norway.

He was warned for overseas duty many times, and was granted embarkation leave many times, each time finding his overseas draft being cancelled.

There was to be no embarkation leave, of course, because of the obvious necessity of preserving secrecy about the date of the invasion of north-west Europe.

The two welcome home their sons Georgie Locke and Harry Blitztein who are home on embarkation leave of a week before shipping out to fight.

Brent opened his mouth to say that he was on embarkation leave and shut it again without speaking; there was no knowing what security snoopers might not be within hearing in that crowd.

Embarkation leaves were held during April, and on 13 May 1958, the 2nd Battle Group, 4th Infantry boarded the USNS Rose for Bremerhaven, Germany.

Clarissa could only say glumly that according to the newspapers, the Finns were doing very well at any rate, and how mean Charles's officers were not to give him a bit more Embarkation Leave.

He volunteered for the Canadian Army Pacific Force (CAPF), granted a final "embarkation leave", and found himself no closer to combat employment by the time the Japanese surrendered in September 1945.

As Christmas leave was drawing to a close those still away from the unit were recalled by telegram and ordered to get ready to deploy for overseas service, although oddly, they were then given six days "embarkation leave" (with an extra day to allow the Irishmen to travel home).

He was sent back to London on embarkation leave, after which he should have gone to the Far East but was kept for an RAF pageant in the Royal Albert Hall, which he scripted and Ralph Reader and directed with 1,500 RAF personnel.