Stretcher Bearer

Word STRETCHER BEARER
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What do we mean by stretcher bearer?

One who helps carry a stretcher or litter. noun

A person who carries, or helps to carry, injured or dead people on a stretcher. noun

One who helps carry a stretcher noun

A person who carries, or helps to carry, injured or dead people on a stretcher.

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The word "stretcher-bearer" in example sentences

He served as a stretcher-bearer in WWI and then running canteens for soldiers in Dumfries during WWII. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He served as a stretcher-bearer with the British Army. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Tragically, in 1941, his mother was euthanized by the Nazis, and his father later killed serving in Hitler's war; in his late teens, Stockhausen himself was a stretcher-bearer for the Germans, witnessing horrific atrocities. ❋ Unknown (2009)

It's a book in three parts: the first couple of chapters describe Shute's boyhood and youth, where the most exciting part is his close observation of the Easter Rising of 1916 - his father, as it happens, was the Secretary of the Irish Post Office, so there is a certain immediacy to Shute's account, from an angle one doesn't often get - that of a middle-class English teenager pressed into service as a stretcher-bearer. ❋ Nickbarnes (2007)

Although the picture is blurred, note that the leading stretcher-bearer is wearing his helmet at a slightly raked angle. ❋ Richard (2006)

They were both present at the battle of Spion Kop in South Africa seven years earlier -- Churchill as a war correspondent, Gandhi as a stretcher-bearer -- but they failed even to scrape hulls on that occasion. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He was serving as a stretcher-bearer, behind the lines, being too old for any more active service. ❋ Sayers, Dorothy L. (2002)

Mahatma Gandhi acted, for example, as a volunteer stretcher-bearer at the Spionkop battle site near Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal. ❋ Unknown (1999)

Mahatma Gandhi acted, for example, as a volunteer stretcher-bearer at the Spioenkop battle site near Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal. ❋ Unknown (1999)

He led a small stretcher-bearer corps which nursed the wounded Zulus whom the whites despised and left to suffer. ❋ Unknown (1992)

In his early days Gandhi served as a stretcher-bearer on the British side in the Boer War, and he was prepared to do the same again in the war of 1914-18. ❋ Unknown (1949)

Without thought of personal safety, and despite the fact that the Germans were shelling the machine, the stretcher-bearer climbed 'over the top,' in full view of the enemy, and carried the wounded pilot to a shell-hole, where he rendered first-aid and then brought the injured man to the safety of our trenches. ❋ G. P. Cuttriss (N/A)

Assisted by another stretcher-bearer, the hero of this incident endeavoured to convey the wounded man to the A.D.S. The trench along which they were walking was blown in, making it necessary to carry the injured man 'over the top.' ❋ G. P. Cuttriss (N/A)

He became a bandsman, then a stretcher-bearer, and eventually was detailed to assist in a cook-house -- in cook-house terminology an ❋ G. P. Cuttriss (N/A)

He acted in turns as a galloper, as a water-carrier, and as a stretcher-bearer. ❋ W. E. Sellers (N/A)

I heard somebody singing out "stretcher-bearer" and I thought something had struck me in the back and had gone though me, but I looked around for my men. ❋ R. Lewis (N/A)

Can we wonder if now and then a stretcher-bearer is struck down? ❋ Ernest N. Bennett (N/A)

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