While working as a stretcher bearer, Dutch is wounded. Smout served in the army as a stretcher bearer. John started a coal delivery business and returned to Lourdes as a stretcher bearer. Caiola served in the Battle of Iwo Jima as a stretcher bearer. He served as a stretcher bearer in the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. "The Crest" a stretcher bearer during World War II.