Stretcher bearer

[1] In case of military personnel, for example removing wounded or dead from a battlefield, the modern term is combat medic who will have received considerable training.

In times of war, stretcher-bearers may in certain situations be covered by Art.

25 of the First (Geneva) Convention of 1949 under the category of auxiliary medical personnel.

In the army stretcher-bearers were a kind of specific soldiers who work with military ambulances and medical services.

A famous stretcher-bearer and ambulance driver during the First World War was the young Ernest Hemingway.