"wounded person" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who has been physically injured or harmed. Example: The paramedic rushed to help the wounded person lying on the ground.
During the Civil War, Walt Whitman, while working as a nurse in a military hospital, remarked, "I do not ask the wounded person how he feels; I myself become the wounded person".
I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.
Murphy was ambushed by the shooter as he went to tend to a wounded person.
A short time later, a wounded person pulled into the parking lot of a nearby AM/PM and asked for help.
All of the injured who made it to hospitals survived, and the only wounded person connected to the attacks to arrive at a hospital and later die was one of the suspects, Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
A United States military spokesman, Col. Jerry O'Hara, confirmed that United States air support forces had fired on a group of five carrying a wounded person outside the village.
He also shot and wounded another person at the school.
The bombs on Thursday wounded one person at each embassy.
NOUAKCHOTT, Mauritania (AP) — Gunmen opened fire on the Israeli Embassy in Mauritania Friday, setting off a battle with guards that wounded one person, according to Israeli officials and witnesses.
When a car bomb exploded more than a year ago in the strictly Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood and slightly wounded one person, residents called it a miracle.
Indiana Pacers guard Jamaal Tinsley and several companions were the apparent targets of a shooting yesterday morning that wounded one person outside a downtown Indianapolis hotel.
