stretcher-bearer

He served as a stretcher-bearer with the British Army.

Commemorative Ceremony for WWI Veterans « Mudpuddle 2010

He served as a stretcher-bearer in WWI and then running canteens for soldiers in Dumfries during WWII.

2009 November 07 « Mudpuddle 2009

He served as a stretcher-bearer with the British Army.

2010 March 03 « Mudpuddle 2010

He served as a stretcher-bearer in WWI and then running canteens for soldiers in Dumfries during WWII.

PhotoHunter: Veterans « Mudpuddle 2009

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.

Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin: Dog Ears Music: Volume Twenty-Five 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.

December Books 13) Slide Rule nickbarnes 2007

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

Stretcher Alley 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.

Clash of Civilizations, 2008

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

Part 4 - Act 2: The Red Cross workers Richard 2006

He was serving as a stretcher-bearer, behind the lines, being too old for any more active service.

Presumption of Death Sayers, Dorothy L. 2002