British<unk> s in Dunkirk evacuation of World War II. A<unk>  is a person who carries a<unk> , generally with another person at its other end, especially in a war or emergency times when there is a very serious accident or a disaster. 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.<unk> s would have received basic first-aid training. The wounded soldier had to wait until the<unk> s arrived or simply the<unk> s will find them. In times of war,<unk> s may in certain situations be covered by Art. 25 of the First (Geneva) Convention of 1949 under the category of auxiliary medical personnel. Origin== This term appears between 1875 and 1880. It is largely used before and up to the Second World War and is derived from the British English verb to<unk>  means "to carry someone on a<unk> ". A<unk>  party, sometimes a<unk>  party or company, is a group or a band of people temporarily or regularly associated which have to carry injured persons with<unk> s. In the army<unk> s were a kind of specific soldiers who work with military ambulances and medical services. A famous<unk>  and ambulance driver during the First World War was the young Ernest Hemingway.
Stretcher bearer
Spycatcher
Body broker
Caustic pencil
Dispatcher
Pill organizer
Crutch
Honest broker