1. The rear stretcher-bearer had been hit in the head.

2. All the stretcher-bearers got wiped out.

3. It was a party of stretcher-bearers, passing round for a final ascertaining that only the dead remained.

4. Stretcher-bearers were trying to clear the debris to get to the wounded men.

5. Stretcher-bearers pushed past Jack as he stood blinking at the top of the tunnel, breathing the damp air.

6. Ambulances and stretcher-bearers moved about the field-staying close, however, to the Union lines, for no truce existed.

7. I asked, when the stretcher-bearers arrived and put on their harnesses.

8. By the time the stretcher-bearers reached them Douglas had lost consciousness.

9. Bethune first served as a stretcher-bearer in an ambulance unit and later as a medical officer with the Allies during the First World War.

10. In his early days Gandhi served as a stretcher-bearer on the British side in the Boer War, and he was prepared to do the same again in the war of 1914-18.

11. Some of the men have volunteered to help as stretcher-bearers on the day.

12. A few of my men have volunteered to be stretcher-bearers if manpower gets short.