"'They've routed us, Mr. President,' a wounded officer cried, as the stretcher upon which he was lying passed near Jeff Davis.

The bearers entered with the stretcher, placed the body on it, and carried it away.

For in the middle of the floor stood a stretcher, and on it was an object covered with a sheet, its outlines horribly suggestive.

Then, before extinguishing the lights, I approached that silent figure on the stretcher, lifted the sheet and looked for the last time upon the face of my dead friend.

They put him for the moment in a gas-proof shelter, higher up the hill, and several hours later I saw him being carried away on a stretcher, apparently lifeless.

Him, too, we carried into the Command Post, and, later, on a stretcher to the dressing station.

Every now and again the cry was heard "another casualty on No. 4!" and stretcher bearers would start down the road from the Command Post.

The German commander, however, signed to them to keep their arms and then asked to shake hands with the wounded noncommissioned officer, who was carried off on his stretcher with his rifle by his side.

The guilty one, degraded in this way, was subsequently thrown upon a hurdle, or upon a stretcher, covered with a mortuary cloak, and finally carried to the church, where they repeated the same prayers and the same ceremonies as for the dead.

If I had my way, I would staff the newspaper offices, as far as possible, with wounded soldiers, and I would give some of the present staff a holiday as stretcher-bearers.

Take a drink, and hold on till we come back,' says one of them with the stretcher.

You see, we have to act as stretcher bearers as well as chauffeurs.

We picked up two more stretcher-bearers in Ostend and a queer little middle-aged lady out for a job at the front.

He could not undergo the pain of riding, and a stretcher had to be slung between two horses to carry him on.

By the end of a week, Isak and the boys had actually got the foundation posts in, and soundly fixed with stretcher pieces as thick as the beams themselves.

Three ladies in field kit stood by their cars waiting for the day's commands, and there were four stretcher-bearers, of whom I was the newest recruit.

Mr. Gleeson asked me to help him on the other end of his own stretcher.

Gleeson was already taking down a stretcher.

I lent a hand to one of the stretcher-bearers.

We picked them up and put them into one of the ambulances, the dying man groaning a little as we strapped him on the stretcher.

I helped to pack up one of the ambulances and went back to Furnes sitting next to the driver, but twisted round so that I could hold one of the stretcher poles which wanted to jolt out of its strap so that the man lying with a dead weight on the canvas would come down with a smash upon the body of the man beneath.

" Then would follow a silence or a whispering of stretcher-bearers, telling their adventures to a girl in khaki breeches, standing with one hand in her jacket pocket, and with the little flare of a cigarette glowing upon her cheek and hair.

The ambulances carried them away to the station of Fortem, where those who could still sit up were packed into a steam tram, and where the stretcher-cases were taken to the civil hospital at Furnes by motor transport.

Bard, the wagon-maker, made me a stretcher, and with a yard of unbleached muslin, some tacks and white lead, I made a canvas.

As I threw back the huge oak door someone brushed past me, calling "Two men and a stretcher," and there in the brilliant moonlight I beheld the most ghastly spectacle I had as yet witnessed.