stretcher-bearers

Grizona also recalled the dominant role of women in the building of fortifications, as sentries, nurses, stretcher-bearers, and childcare providers.

Arms and the Woman: Just Warriors and Greek Feminist Identity 2008

Everyone is in the charge; stretcher-bearers, signalers and the Lewis gunners, and we make our way blindly forward through a chaos of bursting shells and machine-gun bullets.

The Gun C. J. Chivers 2010

Following the first day's battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916, stretcher-bearers needed three days to clear the battle zone of more than fifty-seven thousand dead and wounded officers and men of the British army and nearly six thousand Germans.

WWI Ambulance Research Victoria Janssen 2009

It was not uncommon for battalion stretcher-bearers on both sides to divide no-man's-land between them, with each side handing over the other's wounded or informing the other of the position of its wounded to make rescue possible.

WWI Ambulance Research Victoria Janssen 2009

"It was common for stretcher-bearers to remove the white brassards they wore, which made them easy targets for enemy marksmen."

WWI Ambulance Research Victoria Janssen 2009

I was thirty feet down an embankment and could not reach him again, since the stretcher-bearers had no sense that this was a special dying child.

Georgianne Nienaber: A Mother's Tribute to a Dead Congolese Child 2009

With extraordinary rapidity, the three stretcher-bearers disperse.

Part 7 - Act 4: Caught in the act! Richard 2006

When it happened a third time, his impatience with the incompetent stretcher-bearers got the better of him and he stormed off.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2007

Wounded men, stretcher-bearers and men following up the advance were seen on all sides, and on the ground lay the bodies of friends and foes who had passed to the Great Beyond.

Archive 2007-04-01 2007

Wounded men, stretcher-bearers and men following up the advance were seen on all sides, and on the ground lay the bodies of friends and foes who had passed to the Great Beyond.

Canon Frederick George Scott on Vimy 2007