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What are stretcher-bearers?

What are stretcher-bearers? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. plural of stretcher-bearer
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I went over the crest with my orderly, asking the stretcher-bearers to follow at intervals so as not to attract fire.
The refugee column was attacked by German planes, and the stretcher-bearers ran off, leaving Mitterrand lying on the road looking up at the German planes in the sky above him.
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.
When the stretcher-bearers put him down, the covering was pulled back.
The stretcher-bearers felt a deep sense of personal loss if their patient died, such was the bond formed over the mountains.
His command consisted of five riflemen, a telephonist, a linesman, and two stretcher-bearers.

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