It is effectively the first stage of his journey back to the Front, and a probable death.

Your claim was instrumental in events which have led to his probable death.

Rules are laid down for determining doubts concerning the probable death of soldiers in the late civil war.

She'd leave them both, go alone to her probable death.

One of his friends had to be condemned to probable death.

It is probable death to stay and certain death to go.

Finally he and his platoon go over the top in 1917 to their probable death.

It doesn't matter to them if they send out millions a year to certain misery and probable death.

Oddly, that thought troubled me more than probable death.

He then walks off into exile and probable death.