| They offered their services and trained as stretcher-bearers to support the expected medical casualties. |
| Bandsmen are professional musicians who act as stretcher-bearers in the event of war. |
| Not even the sight of stretcher-bearers has dissuaded referees from rubbing salt into the wounds down the years. |
| His command consisted of five riflemen, a telephonist, a linesman, and two stretcher-bearers. |
| I went over the crest with my orderly, asking the stretcher-bearers to follow at intervals so as not to attract fire. |
| On numerous occasions he withdrew from the front line under heavy fire to summon medical assistance for the wounded and returned acting as a guide to stretcher-bearers. |
