List of ambulance drivers during World War I

This is a list of notable people who served as ambulance drivers during the First World War. A remarkable number—writers especially—volunteered as ambulance drivers for the Allied Powers. In many cases they sympathized strongly with the ideals of the Allied Powers but did not want to, or were too old to, participate in a combat role. For women, of course, combat was not an option at the time. Several of the Americans on the list volunteered before the United States' 1917 entry into the war. Many of the American writers would later be associated with the Lost Generation.

Writers

• Louis Bromfield - volunteer American Field Service
• William Slater Brown - volunteer Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps
• Malcolm Cowley - volunteer American Field Service
• Harry Crosby - volunteer American Field Service
• E. E. Cummings - volunteer Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps
• Kati Dadeshkeliani - Russian Army ambulance driver
• Russell Davenport - U.S. Army Medical Corps
• John Dos Passos - volunteer Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps
• Helen Gleason - volunteer Munro Ambulance Corps
• Julien Green- volunteer American Field Service
• Dashiell Hammett
• Ernest Hemingway - volunteer American Red Cross
• Robert Hillyer - volunteer Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps
• Sidney Howard - volunteer American Field Service
• Jerome K. Jerome, ambulance driver for the French Army
• John Howard Lawson - volunteer Norton-Harjes Ambulance Corps
• Desmond MacCarthy
• Archibald MacLeish - U.S. Army ambulance driver, later as artillery captain
• John Masefield
• F. Van Wyck Mason - ambulance corps volunteer, later he joined the French Army then the U.S. Army
• Somerset Maugham - volunteer British Red Cross ambulance corps
• Charles Nordhoff - volunteer American Field Service
• Robert W. Service - volunteer British Red Cross
• Olaf Stapledon - Friends' Ambulance Unit volunteer
• Sir Hugh Walpole - volunteer for Red Cross in Russia
• Amos Niven Wilder - volunteer American Field Service, later artillery

Composers

• Maurice Ravel - volunteer ambulance driver or truck driver
• Albert Roussel
• Ralph Vaughan Williams - Royal Army Medical Corps

Other Notable People

• Frank Buckles - Last American World War I veteran
• Betty Carstairs - Wealthy Anglo-American. Later known as a power boat racer and for her eccentric lifestyle
• René Clair - French filmmaker
• Jean Cocteau - French dramatist and filmmaker
• Stafford Cripps - British politician
• Hélène Dutrieu - pioneering French aviator
• Tony Hulman - volunteer American Red Cross - American businessman, owner and operator of Indianapolis Motor Speedway
• Ray Kroc - American entrepreneur of McDonald's Corporation fame, he trained to become an ambulance driver, though the war ended before he saw action.
• Waldo Peirce - volunteer American Field Service - American painter
• Percy Toplis - notorious British deserter
• William A. Wellman - American film director

Individuals who served the Allies in a related capacity

• Algernon Blackwood - British Red Cross Searcher, trying to identify dead or lost soldiers - British author
• Archibald Cronin - Royal Navy surgeon - Scottish novelist
• Marjory Stoneman Douglas - volunteered for American Red Cross - eminent American conservationist
• Dorothy Canfield Fisher - volunteered to help blinded Allied soldiers - American social activist and author
• E.M. Forster - interviewed wounded in Egyptian hospitals - English novelist
• Anne Green - volunteer work, author and translator, brother of aforementioned ambulance driver and author Julian Green
• Gertrude Stein - volunteer driver for French hospitals - American poet, playwright, feminist
• Edmund Wilson - American literary critic