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Rocking of the stretcher would increase the pain/fatality rate of the wounded soldier
Bandsmen were of the "right sort of stuff" for the job.
-intelligent
-trainable
-a bonded group
Bring casualties back to the British lines
British N.C.O.s Orchestra Minden 1917
We carry no rifle, bayonet nor bomb,
But follow behind in rear
Of the steel fringed line that surges along
With a ringing British cheer,
Through the tangled wire of the blown-in trench,
spite of shrapnel or bursting shell,
we make for the spots-Khaki-clad helpless blots-
that mark where our front rank fell.
We are the men who carry them back,
the wounded, the dying and dead.
http://www.worldwar1postcards.com/real-photographic-ww1-postcards.php
Stretcher bearers endured strenuous work and dangerous conditions to save other soldiers' lives.
Stretcher Bearers were part of a division of the Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) in the British Army
"Battlefield Medics: Saving Lives Under Fire." History Net Where History Comes Alive World US History Online. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2015.
"Spartacus Educational." Spartacus Educational. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2015.
"First World War Veterans of Guysborough County." : Stretcher Bearers. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 Nov. 2015.
Horton, Charles H., and Dale Le Vack. Stretcher Bearer: Fighting for Life in the Trenches. Oxford: Lion, 2013. Print.
By: Meredith Gioe
Composed of:
-Bandsmen
-Volunteers
-POWs
POWs were sometimes impressed into being stretcher bearers when the number of Allied casualties became overbearing
Conscientious Objectors:
-refused traditonal military service
"Saving men over killing them"
Motivated by Christian ideals, he volunteered as a stretcher bearer in 1915
This image is available from Library and Archives Canada.
http://www.birminghampost.co.uk/lifestyle/birmingham-war-hero-kept-silence-3906313