stretcher-bearers
Battlefield evacuation personnel
Stretcher-bearers are people who carry a stretcher—a portable frame for transporting someone who is injured, ill, or dead.
The term most often appears in military contexts, where stretcher-bearers evacuate wounded soldiers from battlefields: The stretcher-bearers worked through the night to clear the casualties.
Emergency treatment personnel
- woundedHaving sustained harm
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- evacuationRemoval from danger
- trenchesElongated ground excavations
frontline · triage · ambulance · field hospital · No Man's Land · combat · infantry · shelling
Emergency medical technicians
- EMTsPrehospital care providers
- emergencySerious sudden danger
- accidentUnintended harmful event
- ambulance crewEmergency vehicle personnel
injured · transport · gurney · hospital · trauma · responders · disaster · evacuation
First global military conflict
- SommeFrench river, WWI battlefield
- GallipoliWWI Turkish peninsula campaign
- conscientious objectorsPeople refusing combat on principle
- QuakersPacifist Protestant denomination
non-combatants · orderlies · Red Cross · trench warfare · Verdun · shell shock · Geneva Convention · armband
Funeral procession carriers
- funeralService honoring the dead
- processionFormal moving line
- honor guardMilitary tribute formation
- casketBurial container
dignitary · military honors · solemn · cortege · repatriation · memorial · burial · ceremony
medics
Emergency treatment personnel
- woundedHaving sustained harm
- casualtiesThose killed or wounded
- evacuationRemoval from danger
trenches · frontline · triage · ambulance · field hospital · No Man's Land · combat · infantry · shelling · mud
paramedics
Emergency medical technicians
ambulance crew · injured · transport · gurney · hospital · trauma · responders · disaster · evacuation · collapse
World War I
First global military conflict
- SommeFrench river, WWI battlefield
- GallipoliWWI Turkish peninsula campaign
- conscientious objectorsPeople refusing combat on principle
Quakers · non-combatants · orderlies · Red Cross · trench warfare · Verdun · shell shock · Geneva Convention · armband · neutrality
pallbearers
Funeral procession carriers
- funeralService honoring the dead
- processionFormal moving line
- honor guardMilitary tribute formation
casket · dignitary · military honors · solemn · cortege · repatriation · memorial · burial · ceremony · veterans
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