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    stretcher


    1. a special stretcher just jumped out of that stretcher and ran, completely


    2. Steve and Jerry carried Daniel on the stretcher down the side of the mountain and into another huge cave


    3. She nodded as he and Steve picked up Daniel and gently placed him on the stretcher


    4. They opened the doors and quickly got Daniel on the stretcher and into the huge house


    5. The emergency doors opened and I came to, as I was being hauled in on the stretcher


    6. As the half-drowned man was placed onto a stretcher he placed


    7. A collapsible stretcher has been wheeled into the club, along with basic resuscitation kit and oxygen


    8. Jack has collapsed the stretcher and is ready to move Leona


    9. The two ambulance men transfer her from the dance floor to the stretcher slowly and with precision


    10. With Leona on the stretcher the first paramedic takes a plastic vial from his kit bag and takes a sample of her vomit for testing at the hospital

    11. Doors crash open as the second ambulance crew wheel their stretcher into the club and barge through the staff to get to Bex


    12. As Bex is being stabilised they wheel Leona out to their ambulance and slide the stretcher back onto its runners


    13. “Billy Boy is that you lad or am I hallucinating?” I looked over and saw Sam Langton lying on a stretcher and I replied


    14. He led back down on his stretcher saying


    15. “Luckily a couple of stretcher bearers risked their lives to come and get me and the other bloke they brought us back to our trenches only he was dead and I ended up down here


    16. He settled back onto his stretcher and I leant over and gave him a smoke from my cigarette case that Helen had bought me and which he had admired we lit up though the cough that wracked his body didn’t bode well for his future


    17. He had just asked me to tell him about Helen when a medical orderly and a couple of stretcher bearers came over to us we both had labels tied to our button holes but he simply asked


    18. So say your goodbyes to your friend and be quick we must get going there are lots more who need moving”, and he motioned the stretcher bearers to pick up Sam’s stretcher and set off down the beach


    19. ” The stretcher bearers carried him off into the night and I could just see the silhouette as he began the first part of his journey to the hospital ship


    20. “God keep you safe Sam mate until we meet again”, and then I lay back on my stretcher absolutely spent

    21. We had taken Eli to the medics before but now it was really bad and he could now only crawl about so we got hold of a stretcher and loaded him on me and Johnny carried it whilst Elijah held on to Eli as we took him down to the aid station


    22. So we knelt beside the stretcher too take our leave of our friend Eli but by this time he was rambling and incoherent and could not recognise us so we left him and went back to the dugout


    23. I passed out but before I did I saw Elijah drop down and I knew he had been hit I didn’t see the stretcher bearers who came out and picked me up when the firing died down


    24. The ship was unloaded and we helped the signaller’s stretcher bearer’s office staff and machine gunners who usually along with the service troops accompanied the Btn transport


    25. As it was he had been seconded to the Battalion Aid Station as a stretcher bearer, I saw him and a L/cpl called Stanley who had the most untrustworthy face that I had ever seen but I could not get near him at this time


    26. “I want a good rifleman to go out with the stretcher bearers and give them cover while they collect the prisoner


    27. “Pte Lamb you go out with the stretcher party and fetch that Hun back in


    28. ” I was about to complain when I saw who was with the stretcher it was that little bastard Tommy Smith and I thought what better place to extract my revenge on the fucker but out by the wire


    29. We crawled out through our wire and towards where the prisoner had been left Smith and the other stretcher bearer followed me


    30. I knew that we had to be careful as the Germans would sometimes send out patrols to nab stretcher bearers as they picked up the wounded

    31. The other two crawled up with their stretcher and I noticed that Smith was by my side I moved stealthily right beside him and then I whispered in his ear


    32. I heard the other stretcher bearer give a sharp scream and then a gurgle came from him as machine gun rounds slammed into his face taking most of his head with them


    33. “Pte Smith told us it was the wounded German prisoner who had screamed and that he had searched for you and the other stretcher bearer


    34. “You were lucky lad I thought that we had lost you out there but what happened to the other stretcher bearer?” I replied


    35. I think though that you should thank the stretcher bearer Pte Smith for risking his neck looking for you for that took courage


    36. “Therefore our Battalion will advance in eight waves that will be two waves per Company and there will be additional waves for Battalion HQ and the stretcher bearers


    37. Stretcher parties came past us with black faced men on them who had been wounded whilst taking part in the raid


    38. “Yes Sir they looked like stretcher bearers but I couldn’t see who they were for they were quite a distance from us and by the time me and the S/Sgt tried to get to them they had disappeared


    39. I moved along with the stretcher, holding onto the cats to keep them from jumping ship, as they wheeled Miss Ellie into the trauma room


    40. “Anyway I found some and came back there were other dead in the trench and as I rolled over the top I thought thank god because there were a couple of stretcher bearers there

    41. Then I saw the stretcher bearers begin to crawl out to collect the wounds and I knew that Smith and Stanley would be amongst them and I decided that I would take care of them now before they robbed anymore corpses


    42. I traversed across ‘No Man’s Land’ Stopping to look at each stretcher bearer as I came upon them some I knew and they told me to make my way back to our lines


    43. However no one seemed to have seen them although a Sgt from one of the stretcher bearing teams said they were out here somewhere but that they would be up to no good


    44. “There are stretcher bearers who were out in no man’s land saying you were looking for a L/Cpl Stanley and a Pte Smith and acting strange about it


    45. They both lifted him on to a stretcher that seemed to unfold from a ten-centimetre square


    46. I know of an incident, me being the school’s history boffin as you know, during the First World War when a Zulu speaking white officer found a dying Zulu stretcher bearer, and ordered him in his own language to live…and he did


    47. At the De Crot House, I learned that a stretcher and bearers were imperative


    48. From within the heavy smoke, I was able to discern what looked like images of people with a stretcher running toward us


    49. He became so angry that he turned over the reception desk and kicked a stretcher that was lying on the floor beside him


    50. Sitting down on the stretcher beside Aunt Martha, I studied the floor as Hives carried on relentlessly













































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    Synonyms for "stretcher"

    capstone copestone coping stone stretcher vehicle

    "stretcher" definitions

    a wooden framework on which canvas is stretched and fixed for oil painting


    a mechanical device used to make something larger (as shoes or gloves) by stretching it


    a litter for transporting people who are ill or wounded or dead; usually consists of a sheet of canvas stretched between two poles


    a stone that forms the top of wall or building