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'Stretcher-bearers': (31) At Castilione del Lago

We found the hospital at Castilione del Lago damaged, probably by both sides... After an extensive search...

'Stretcher-bearers': (32) Egyptian Interlude

This is intended to speed the evacuation of sick and wounded and economise in MOs, by the appointment of...

'Stretcher-bearers': (33) Back to Italy from Egypt

Towards dark we blacked out a window with sacking and more cardboard to pass a fairly comfortable night In...

'Stretcher-bearers': (35) Attached to the Lancs and theRecces

We returned today to posts just forward of the RAP and received orders to descend into the valley to pick...

'Stretcher-bearers': (36) Bomb-happy

About midnight another shower of mortars fell close and a few minutes later Corporal Walton was summoned by...

'Stretcher-bearers': (37) Trench

In daylight I took a Stretcher Bearer Officer out to "A" squadron... The one who remained and I sat...

'Stretcher-bearers': (38) With the East Surreys

Before lunch Jerry sent over about ten mortars which wounded two of our mortar men situated between the...

'Stretcher-bearers': (41) Lone Trek

Since it was too late to relieve Corporal MacKenzie, we all spent the night at the RAP, where Corporal R......

'Stretcher-bearers': (42) Last Lap

After five more uneventful days with the East Surrey battalion, we were withdrawn to near Castel Del Rio,...

'Stretcher-bearers': (34) Mishaps and Misunderstandings

Here we came across more stretcher bearers and an officer who ordered us to advance again to a village...

'Stretcher-bearers': (16) Sicilian Advance - How others fared

I had seen stretcher bearers in action in Tunisia and had always admired the way they had conducted their...

'Stretcher-bearers': (43) Appendix 1 - Letters Home

Jiggerumpore" was used in a jingoistic naval rhyming alphabet kept in our grandparents' home, near...

'Stretcher-bearers' by H.A.B. White: (1) Introduction

"Stretcher-bearers" gives a description of World War II as experienced by a Royal Army Medical...

'Stretcher-bearers': (3) Dunkirk - Two accounts

Our Field Ambulance had problems evacuating casualties along roads clogged with refugees escaping the...

'Stretcher-bearers': (40) Line Routine - Winter 1944

MacKenzie, the soundest NCO, perhaps, in the company We had two more dead and a stretcher case to evacuate...

'Stretcher-bearers': (24) At Termoli, 4.10.1943

We were in a barn putting a Thomas splint on a casualty with a broken thigh when we received a direct hit....

'Stretcher-bearers': (39) Camp thoughts by Jack Blockley

Our classical scholar rustled the pages of Caesar, our historian pushed Macaulay's Life closer to the...

'Stretcher-bearers': (44) Appendix 2 - 11 Field Ambulance, Roll of Honour, 1939-45

Williams, Private, R.E. Italy Bolt, Staff Sergeant, J.L....

'Stretcher-bearers': (45) Appendix 3 - 11 Field Ambulance, Decorations won

1 Bronze Star is listed in Battleaxe Weekly, 1945, but the recipient's name is not given. Some of the...

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