dhoolies

They were still too weak to walk any distance and had to be carried in roughly-constructed "dhoolies" by the Haussas.

Wilmshurst of the Frontier Force Ernest [Illustrator] Prater 1917

Company, with dhoolies, were out to seek amongst the rocks for the wounded and the slain, and it was not long before I was on my way to join them.

From Aldershot to Pretoria A Story of Christian Work among Our Troops in South Africa W. E. Sellers

The doctors and ambulance men who went out after the brief cavalry action on Friday morning report they were fired on while carrying the dead and wounded in the dhoolies.

Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900

To-day's bombardment nearly destroyed the tents and dhoolies of our field hospital, but did little else save beheading and mangling some corpses.

Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900

The stream of ambulance was incessant -- covered mule-waggons, little ox-carts, green dhoolies carried by indomitable Hindoos, knee-deep in water, and indifferent to every kind of death.

Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900

Behind the cover of the rocks the dhoolies were waiting with their green-covered stretchers.

Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900

Summoned by telephone, the dhoolies came quickly up and bore them away, together with the remains of the dead.

Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900

The sick, wet and filthy as they were, had to be hurried away in dhoolies to the chapels and churches again.

Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900

The dhoolies quickly came and bore the wounded away to the Wesleyan Chapel.

Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900

Under the Red Cross flag the dhoolies then began to go out to pick up the results of the battle.

Ladysmith The Diary of a Siege Henry W. Nevinson 1900