Word: stretcher
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...band and it will be followed exactly. The men will be held up to a very rigid discipline; they are excused from all kitchen or fatigue duties, but will loose their passes at the slightest evidence of insubordination. During the afternoon drills the bandmen will act as orderlies, stretcher bearers and will perform similar duties, when not with the band itself...
...section to which I was attached worked in the Verdun sector, I thought that I had never heard a barrage as intense as the French barrage of the 20th of August, but this one seemed to be multiplied by a hundred, and as one American officer remarked from a stretcher, "How is a man expected to live through such a thing as this?" The next morning the wounded started to pour into this little village, and this time the sight was especially sad, because among the many were not a few of our boys. I left for the front that...
...Division Ambulance Corps, following our division wherever it goes and doing our work in connection with the fighting work of the division, carrying its wounded from the field dressing stations back to the hospitals. When our division goes up to the front line trenches we follow with the "brancardiers" (stretcher bearers...
...work of the motor ambulances is not actually on the battlefield, as is often supposed. The army's own stretcher-bearers do the hazardous work of collecting the wounded; they are given what treatment is imperative by the surgeons at the first-line stations, and are taken to the second-line stations in horse-ambulances. It is here that the work of the motor-ambulances begins, and it ends at the big clearing hospitals, established at varying distances to the rear...