stretcher bearer in the PONS Dictionary

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As fast treatment could prevent deaths from blood loss, the role of the stretcher bearer was changed.
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From 1993 onwards, the musicians would be retrained, not as stretcher bearers, but as qualified medical assistants.
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My grandfather was a stretcher bearer, bringing the wounded across the battlefield and along the trenches.
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As a stretcher bearer, he carried casualties with the rest of the bearers on the first day of the campaign.
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They were also used to transport supplies, as stretcher bearers and on guard duties.
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There were stretcher bearers coming up behind us, you see.
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Other medical staff were a sergeant sanitary assistant, a masseur, a dental orderly and five stretcher bearers, one of whom was trained as a shoemaker.
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Under their command were three nursing orderlies, a clerk, a dutyman and thirteen stretcher bearers.
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He continually assisted in finding and carrying wounded and in guiding stretcher bearers to the aid post.
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He was a stretcher bearer who attained the rank of sergeant.
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