stretcher bearer in English

noun
1
a person who helps to carry the sick or injured on stretchers, especially in time of war or at the scene of an accident.
He was left for dead at a hospital clearing post but fortunately was heard to make a sound by one of the stretcher-bearers carrying out a body from the medical aid post tent.
noun
    litter-bearer

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1. 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-