10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STRETCHER CASE»
Discover the use of
stretcher case in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
stretcher case and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Siegfried Sassoon: A Study of the War Poetry
He "got off the mark at once" with some lines called "Stretcher Case" in which he
used his "journey to Oxford in the Red Cross train for an objective and mildly
satiric description of a wounded soldier's sensations" (SJ p. 5). The jaunty
account in ...
... several stretcher cases; stretcher bearer = person who helps to carry a
stretcher; stretcher case = person who is so ill that he has to be carried on a
stretcher; stretcher party = group of people who carry a stretcher and look after
the patient on ...
Peter Hodgson Collin, 1998
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Diaries of a
Stretcher-bearer 1916-1918
Late that night a man who went down with some walking cases reported that the
duck-boards through Delville Wood had been blown up in several places. Next
morning my squad went down with a stretcher case and found several huge shell
...
Edward Charles Munro, Donald Munro, 2010
... Captain M P Andrews dashed to the wreckage and six men were extricated, of
whom three were already dead. One was so seriously wounded that he required
urgent medical attention, but the trenches were too narrow for a stretcher case.
... internal injuries made me a stretcher case. By the time I was strapped in, arms
pinned to my sides, other team members had rigged a block and tackle at the top
of the fall. Now Karras, Thydony, and four other cavers hoisted me up the almost
...
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Valour in the Victory Campaign: The 3rd Canadian Infantry ...
While they were moving back with a stretcher case, a shell landed and exploded
directly under the stretcher, wounding the patient and two stretcher bearers.
Private Campbell, neglecting his own wounds, immediately applied first aid to the
...
7
First Aid to the Injured Nursing & Bandaging
Transport as a stretcher case. Knee-cap Casualty in inclined position. Splint back
of thigh and leg — pad. One broad bandage for splint and thigh. One narrow
bandage — figure of 8 round ankle and foot. One narrow bandage round thigh
and ...
I.K. Ganguli & A.K. Ganguli
Ifa stretcher case hadtowait tobe loaded into an ambulance,I moved from my
motorcarto shield the soldier from thesun withmy shadow and said afew
reassuringwords. An anxiousboy hadseized my handandI was talkingto him,
telling him he'd ...
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Polari - The Lost Language of Gay Men
For example, consider the phrase 'your mother's a stretcher case'.13 The noun
phrase your mother is used in place of the word 'I', while the noun phrase a
stretcher case is used as an adjective to mean tired – the person is ready to be
carried ...
Hetherington would be a stretcher case and would have to wait.77 At 1200
mortars opened up on the Australian positions along with more machine-gun fire.
May and Crossley, the two Vickers crewmen, were now pinned down. Of more ...
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STRETCHER CASE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
stretcher case is used in the context of the following news items.
Head injury tactic a stretcher case
IT always is a sickening sight, especially for rugby mums, as a player is stretchered off the field with his neck in a brace and it's a sight that almost certainly is ... «The Australian, Feb 14»
Carterton charity run entrant was a stretcher case
The team – Kieran Monkman, Ollie Smith, Dave Booth, Al Robinson, Ceri Marshman and Matthew Allen – did the whole run carrying a stretcher, complete with a ... «Oxford Mail, Mar 13»
