An ambulance driver on the Western Front, he bore witness to the carnage of the trenches in Europe.

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An ambulance driver was airlifted to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, suffering from head, pelvis and leg injuries.

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One more thing: As an ambulance driver, Mr. Patch saw so much biological suffering that medical science has since progressed to be able to eradicate (through antibiotics, etc.).

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And, last year, the National Labor Relations board weighed in on behalf of an ambulance driver who had been fired because of a negative Facebook post about the company for which he drove.

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During WWII, for example, he was an ambulance driver (his poor eyesight kept him out of the infantry) attached to the old British-Indian Army in India and Burma, where, among other horrors, he witnessed a famine that took the lives of millions.

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He said he stopped an ambulance, full of injured people, asked the driver take the girl and then continued to help others, some of whom had smoke coming off their bodies.

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The driver said she had waited with another passenger for an ambulance but after an hour decided to drive to the hospital.

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The driver of a car who died after a crash with an ambulance in Shropshire on Thursday has been named by police.

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West Midlands Ambulance Service said the lorry driver, a man in his 50s, had an "amazing" escape.

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