Under orders of the Fifth and later of the Fourth Army, it was ordered to fight a rear-guard action to delay the advance of the enemy and to fill dangerous gaps on the army fronts.
Fighting the most determined rear-guard action in the Somme salient, they expected that our armies would be tired and depleted by the time they reached the forward area of the Hindenburg system.
The Brigadier in charge of the rear-guard action, not having sufficient cavalry at his disposal, ordered the Company to take up the rôle of flank-guard to the retreating column.
But this was only to be a rear-guard action, so he never saw his rations or letters again, after all.
Most of these casualties occurred in the march back to Waihi, which became a heavy rear-guard action, for the main body of the Hauhaus came up in time to attack the troops briskly as they retired through the thick bush.
The Colonial soldiers retired, fighting a hard rear-guard action, out to the edge of the bush.
The losses in killed and wounded were comparatively small, for almost all the fighting was rear-guard action.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "guard action" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
