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Answer for the clue "War zone aid, one with companion picking up litter? ", 16 letters:
stretcher-bearer

Word definitions for stretcher-bearer in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. one who helps carry a stretcher [syn: litter-bearer ]

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A few of my men have volunteered to be stretcher-bearers if manpower gets short. ▪ All the stretcher-bearers got wiped out. ▪ Ambulances and stretcher-bearers moved about the field-staying close, however, to the Union lines, ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A person who carries, or helps to carry, injured or dead people on a stretcher.

Usage examples of stretcher-bearer.

The stretcher-bearers I give him are very gentle fellows, and he always has the same: Paffin, a fat shoe-maker with a stammer, and Monsieur Bouin, a professor of mathematics, with a grey beard and very precise movements.

A few minutes later crowds of wounded men and stretcher-bearers came back from that direction.

The stretcher-bearers, led by an anxious Gordie wringing his hands, were being ushered to the stairs leading down to his quarters, the boxrooms - and the bottom of the lift shaft.

The Japanese dragooned him into being a stretcher-bearer, but he was all right last I saw him.

He jerked his thumb at some of the stretcher-bearers who had previously been the 'cold storage' guards.

The dressing station was on the Austrian side of the river under the edge of the hill and stretcher-bearers would bring the wounded back across the pontoon bridge.