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The most decorated enlisted man in the British Army in WWI was a conscientious objector who never fired a single shot. He was a stretcher bearer who won the Victoria cross for charging into fire unarmed and carrying out 3 wounded men on his back

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Martha Gellhorn, former wife of Ernest Hemingway and the only woman to land on the Normandy beaches. She hid aboard a hospital ship and then impersonated a male stretcher bearer to land on the beaches.

What did stretcher bearers do in ww1?

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what's stretcher-bearer?

1. Martha Gellhorn, a female war correspondent, hid in a hospital ship bathroom and impersonated a stretcher bearer in order to land with the troops in Normandy on D-Day.

2. Winston Churchill and Mohandas Gandhi were both present at the Battle of Spion Kop during the Boer War in 1900: Churchill as a courier and Gandhi as a volunteer stretcher-bearer.

3. Gandhi first decided to use non-violent means of struggle against the British after serving as a stretcher bearer corp in British army.The experience taught him it was hopeless to directly challenge the overwhelming military power of the British army

4. Ghandi formed an organization called the Indian Ambulance Corps, who acted as stretcher bearers during the Second Boer War in South Africa.

5. In 2002, and Israeli drone discovered that Palestinians were fabricating war deaths after it witnessed pall bearers drop a body and the body gets back up and on a stretcher. They then dropped him again during a funeral procession and the crowd fled in fear as the body came back to life.

6. Ernest Hemingway's wife Martha Gellhorn, determined to report on the D-Day landings, managed to sneak onto the beaches disguised as a stretcher-bearer after being refused access as a reporter.