0 someone who carries a stretcher, with another person at its other end, especially in a war or emergency --
He went forward and stayed for over an hour with a badly wounded signaller lying out in the open under shell fire, until the stretcher-bearers could fetch him away.
Generally, senior commands disapproved of any slackening of the offensive for humanitarian reasons and so ordered their troops not to permit enemy stretcher-bearers to operate in no man's land.
Later in the day he organised and led stretcher-bearers to bring in the wounded whom he had dressed.
In other words, when they want the trade unions to be the stretcher-bearers of the capitalist system, they turn not to the sweetheart associations but to the legitimate trade unions.
The nurses, dispensers, laboratory workers, clerks, stretcher-bearers and messengers must all come in as an essential part of the organisation.
Cotter was there as a stretcher-bearer.
He removed him to a place of safety and also brought in a stretcher-bearer who was wounded by the same sniper.
A king in his castle can serve with as much selfless integrity as the stretcher-bearer.
