As a sergeant he had been in charge of stretcher parties, searching in No Man's Land, dragging to shelter men who no longer had a face, who howled to be shot to end their suffering.
Her movement was so violent and so sudden that the stretcher party had to fight for balance.
Then he realised that the opening was intended for the stretcher party.
The Civil Defence services included wardens, rescue and stretcher parties, staffs of control centres, and messenger boys.