stretcher-bearer

[ strech-er-bair-er ]

/ ˈstrɛtʃ ərˌbɛər ər /

a person who helps carry a stretcher, as in removing wounded from a battlefield.

Origin of stretcher-bearer

First recorded in 1875–80

They carry it like a stretcher, though they're missing one stretcher-bearer.

Whatever You Do Someone Will Die. A Short Story About Impossible Choices in Iraq |Nathan Bradley Bethea |August 31, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
These sketches by a stretcher-bearer are extraordinarily clear and actual.

A Kut Prisoner |H. C. W. Bishop
A stretcher-bearer turned up in a minute or two; then another.

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley |Thomas Hope Floyd
Exton, who had just arrived with a message from "B" Company, was killed and a stretcher-bearer badly wounded.

The Fifth Leicestershire |J.D. Hills

He acted in turns as a galloper, as a water-carrier, and as a stretcher-bearer.

From Aldershot to Pretoria |W. E. Sellers
Monsignor Ruch, coadjutor of Nancy, is one; he is employed as a stretcher-bearer.

With our Fighting Men |William E. Sellers

stretcher-bearer

a person who helps to carry a stretcher, esp in wartime