Guillaume Apollinaire
F. Britten Austin
Henri Barbusse
Owen Barfield
Maurice Baring
Vernon Bartlett
Pierre Benoit
Stella Benson
Algernon Blackwood
Fenner Brockway
John Buchan
Mikhail Bulgakov
A.M. Burrage
Philip George Chadwick
G.K. Chesterton
Michel Corday
Noel Coward
Henry Darger
W.A. Darlington
Léon Daudet
Geoffrey Dearmer
Guy Dent
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Émile Driant
Charles Duff
Lord Dunsany
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Cyril Falls
Claude Farrère
George Fitzmaurice
Ford Madox Ford
E.M. Forster
Gilbert Frankau
Ronald Fraser
David Garnett
Lewis Gibbs
John Gloag
Robert Graves
Gerald Grogan
Cicely Hamilton
James Hanley
L.P. Hartley
A.P. Herbert
Edward Heron-Allen
James Hilton
William Hope Hodgson
Claude Houghton
Muriel Jaeger
W.E. Johns
Ernst Jünger
David H. Keller
Bernhard Kellermann
Hugh Kingsmill
Rudyard Kipling
Edward Knoblock
Jean de La Hire
C.S. Lewis
Wyndham Lewis
David Lindsay
Eric Linklater
Hugh Lofting
A.M. Low
F.L. Lucas
Rose Macaulay
Arthur Machen
H.C. McNeile (“Sapper”)
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
John Masefield
André Maurois
Régis Messac
Gustav Meyrink
A.A. Milne
Naomi Mitchison
C.E. Montague
José Moselli
R.H. Mottram
H.H. Munro (“Saki”)
C.R.W. Nevinson
Robert Nichols
Ernest Pérochon
Leo Perutz
J.B. Priestley
Herbert Read
Maurice Renard
Sax Rohmer
Bertrand Russell
Robert W. Service
Edward Shanks
George Bernard Shaw
R.C. Sherriff
Lance Sieveking
May Sinclair
Osbert Sitwell
Jacques Spitz
Olaf Stapledon
Karl Hans Strobl
Barbara Euphan Todd
J.R.R. Tolkien
Jan Weiss
H.G. Wells
Franz Werfel
Percy F. Westerman
Dennis Wheatley
Yevgeny Zamyatin
Apologies for using modern flags; if I can find or manufacture more period-appropriate icons than the modern flags for Germany and the parts of the former Austro-Hungarian and Russian Empires, I shall.
Thanks Edward. Two others. Ronald Fraser (1888-1974), author of The Flying Draper (1924), Flower Phantoms (1926) and other fantasies, served in the Honourable Artillery Company from 1914, was seriously wounded at the Battle of Beaumont Hamel and was invalided out: his left arm and hand were permanently disabled. Guy Dent (1892-1954), author of the scientic romance Emperor of the If (1926) was a Flying Officer from March 1916, and seconded to the west African Regiment. Mark
Edward, then there’s Philip George Chadwick, author of ‘The Death Guard’ – the SFE has an entry on him, though he remains a rather mysterious figure, so you’d probably only be able to list him under “they also served”.
Dear Edward, just relaying the comments made on Farah’s post. Neither Guillaume Apollinaire nor Blaise Cendrars nor May Sinclair have individual entries in the SF Encyclopedia, so you may not want to give them too much prominence, but Sinclair was a friend to one of your writers, Wyndham Lewis. For the record, Apollinaire wrote one science fiction story, ‘The Moon King’ (1916), whilst Cendrars ‘cut-up’ the work of sf writer Gustave Le Rouge – an author whom he admired – in his prose-poem, ‘Kodak’ (1923). The anti-hero of Cendrars’ “Moravagine” (1926) ultimately believes himself to be a Martian. Sinclair, who volunteered as an ambulance driver, wrote two sf stories, ‘Where Their Fire is Not Quenched’ and ‘The Finding of the Absolute’ (both 1923). The former was anthologised by Jorge Luis Borges whilst the latter has been discussed by, amongst others, David Glover (in relation to Conrad and Ford’s “The Inheritors”) and David Seed.
Thanks so much for this! I am certainly going to add May Sinclair; as yet I am not sure about Apollinaire or Cendrars, but I shall look at them!
Just in case this is read as current — there’s still no entry for Appollinaire or May Sinclair in the SFE, though your description of their stories, Paul, points towards something; but CENDRARS at http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/cendrars_blaise now has a sizeable one.
Edward, possibly this might provide you with some more period flags: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_military_ranks_of_World_War_I
Also, in my browser, the French and Ukrainian flags appear 5×5 times as large as the others.
[The unequal size of flags turned out to be a temporary hitch that has disappeared now]