stretcher bearer
Wounded transport worker
A stretcher bearer is a person who carries the injured or dead on a stretcher, especially in military or emergency contexts.
The term evokes battlefield images—medics retrieving wounded soldiers under fire.
Stretcher bearers worked through the night after the bombing.
The role requires no medical training, only the physical task of transport.
- medicEmergency care provider
- litterScattered waste or debris
- woundedHaving sustained harm
- walking woundedAmbulatory casualties
- battlefieldCombat engagement area
war zone · no man's land · under fire · ambulance · triage · evacuation · corpsman · medical corps · paramedic · gurney · first aid · aid station · field hospital · combat · rescue · battle fatigue · carry · blood
- military personnelsoldiers, soldier, midshipmen, officers, troops
- wartime jobssoldier, medic, general, sergeant, nurse
- carrierscarrier, bag, backpack, suitcase, luggage
- bearerspallbearer, torchbearer, cupbearer
- war medicinecombat medic, combat medics, field hospital, field hospitals, field surgery
- WWI InfantryTommies, Tommy, riflemen, trench warfare, bayonet
stretcher bearercombatant
One who fights
infantryman · rifleman · gunner · sniper · machine gunner
stretcher bearerwounder
One who harms another
assailant · enemy combatant · executioner · torturer · shooter
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