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Stretcher-bearers

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  • Stretcher-bearers hauled him by foot to the regimental dressing station about a mile to the rear where his wound was rebandaged.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Stretcher-bearers hauled him by foot to the regimental dressing station about a mile to the rear where his wound was rebandaged.

    Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

  • Stretcher-bearers at beginning of war, 150,000 at end.

    WWI Ambulance Research Victoria Janssen 2009

  • Stretcher-bearers often cleared field of wounded at night under a Red Cross flag.

    WWI Ambulance Research Victoria Janssen 2009

  • Great Regulars: We had hardly reached the support line on the reverse side of the hill, when we heard the cry: "Stretcher-bearers!" and presently a man ran up to say: "Captain Graves is hit!"

    Archive 2009-06-01 Rus Bowden 2009

  • Stretcher-bearers took him down the hill,” McEnery said.

    Brotherhood of Heroes Bill Sloan 2005

  • Stretcher-bearers took him down the hill,” McEnery said.

    Brotherhood of Heroes Bill Sloan 2005

  • "Stretcher-bearers!" he bawled, hoping some of them would hear him.

    Rulers of the Darkness Turtledove, Harry 2002

  • Stretcher-bearers had already driven a lane through the stricken crowd from the ambulance near the curve and the ambulance itself was backing in their wake with both doors held wide open.

    The 9th Directive Hall, Adam 1966

  • Stretcher-bearers are shot down immediately, with or without the wounded, by the German snipers.

    Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous

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