| A | B |
|---|
| Libertine | Cheerful nun at the Catholic Hospital |
| Muller | a scholar (still carries his school textbooks with him, dreams of examinations, and during a bombardment murmurs propositions in physics); inherits Kemmerich's boots |
| Ginger | the Cook |
| Wachter | has an arm hemorrage and dies |
| Miss Kemmerich | Makes Paul promise that her son died peacefully and made him promise that he would take care of her son during the war |
| Bobbies | British policemen |
| Kaiser Wilhelm II | leads Germany during the war |
| no man's land | area between opposing armies in trench warfare |
| pocket torch | british term for flashlight |
| Joseph Behm | attempted to rebel against Kantorek during school; Blinded on the battlefield and dies when he walks into the line of fire |
| Aunt Sally | term for the figure of a woman's head at which balls are thrown |
| Dead Room | Little corner of the hospital for those close to death |
| Johnnies | Slang for British soldiers |
| Leer | entertains comrades with sexual stories; bleeds to death from a hip wound |
| Clank | Military prison |
| Albert Kropp | the best student of the group and clearest thinker (therefore only a lance corporeal); loses leg at hip in the Catholic hospital; "the best thing is not to talk about the rotten business" |
| Lewandowski | in hospital for ten months; other patients keep watch for him so that he can "visit" with MARJA |
| Marja | Lewandowski's wife |
| Gerard Duval | French soldier knifed to death by Paul |
| Kemmerich | Paul watches him die |
| Tjaden | a skinny locksmith; the biggest eater of the company; suffers from Himmelstos for wetting the bed |
| William Tell | Swedish soldier forced to shoot an apple off of his son's head |
| Katcinsky | 40 yeras old; leaders of the group; "shrewd, cunning and hard-bitten, with a foice of soil, blu eyes, bent shoulders, and a remarkable nose for dirty weather, good food, and soft jobs."; dies after being hit by a stray splinter shot |
| gun shy | to be easily frightened by a gun |
| Iron Cross | Prestigious german military decoration |
| Kantorek | Schoomasters; coins the term "IRON YOUTH" |
| Bertink | respected commander of the 2nd company; great sniping skills and iron will allow him to make his final shot; last words- "Good" |
| Chief Surgeon at the Catholic hospital | Experiments on the flat feet of soldiers |
| L'espirit de corps | group spirit; sense of pride and honor |
| Detering | feraks out at cherry blossoms; concerned about his wife who was left to take care of the farm |
| Mittelstaedt | Paul's friend who stays behind from the war and harasses Kartonek from home |
| Sergeant Gellrich | excellent sniper |
| Tiejen | won't allow medical assistance and dies |
| Froggies | slang derrogatory term for the French |
| Court Marshall | to be accused or put on trial by the military |
| "pushing up daisies" | dead and buried |
| Haie Westhus | wants to be a village policeman because he does not want to return to his old occupation- peat digging |
| Berger | wounded trying to get a messenger dog under fire |
| Kindervater | Bedwetter forced to share bed with Tjaden |
| Little Peter | suffers from severe lung wound and returns from the dead room |
