World War I
- Henri Barbusse, served in France (Under Fire)
- E. E. Cummings, volunteer ambulance driver (The Enormous Room)
- Robert Graves, infantry officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers (Goodbye to All That)
- Jaroslav Hasek, served in Austrian and Czech armies (who were on opposing sides), (The Good Soldier Svejk)
- Ernest Hemingway, drove ambulances in Italy (A Farewell to Arms)
- Ernst Jünger
- T. E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia (Seven Pillars of Wisdom)
- C. S. Lewis, British Army, Third Battalion Somerset Light Infantry, served in trench warfare at Somme Valley (The Chronicles of Narnia)
- Emilio Lussu, (Sardinian Brigade)
- H. E. L. Mellersh, infantry officer in the East Lancashire Regiment (Schoolboy Into War)
- Erich Maria Remarque, infantry soldier, wounded in Passchendaele (All Quiet on the Western Front)
- Siegfried Sassoon, infantry officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers (Memoirs of an Infantry Officer)
- 2nd Lt. J. R. R. Tolkien, Lancashire Fusiliers, served in trench warfare at Somme Valley, Battle at Thiepval Ridge and assault on Schwaben Redoubt (The Lord of the Rings)
- Lajos Zilahy, (Century in Scarlet)
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