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Haie Westhus is a described as a larger man who can "hold a ration-loaf in his hand and say: Guess what I've got in my fist". He is what Paul calls a "peat digger". Haie collects the parachutes from the French star shells. Because they are made of silk, he sends them to his girlfriend to make clothing with. Haie eventually is shot in the back, which punctures his lung, and dies. .
Detering was a man described as a peasant who thought mostly of his wife and farm. He reminisces one night with Paul after finding a cherry tree in full bloom. He brings back a couple of branches and begins acting mysteriously. Two days later he is missing and was said to have been captured by the German military police. While he is gone, Paul says the German military police could have no idea that Detering's disappearance "was only homesickness and a momentary aberration. But what does a court-martial a hundred miles behind the front-line know about it"? That is the last they hear of Detering.
Tjaden is one of the men who had a bed-wetting problem. He held a special grudge against Himmelstoss for what he did to him. He is a cunning man who likes to eat. He is one of the men who persuaded the cook to feed 80 people 150 peoples worth of rations because many of them did not return from the battle. A bullet wound to the stomach later ironically kills Tjaden. Kat had told him that they should not overeat since a bullet wound to the stomach on an empty stomach was bad enough, but a bullet wound to the stomach on a full stomach was much more dangerous. .
Franz Kemmerich was one of Paul's classmates that enlisted in the army with him. He landed in the hospital and had his foot amputated. While in the hospital, an infection sets in and he catches a fever. Paul bribes an orderly to give Franz morphine for a few cigarettes Kemmerich later gives Muller his prized boots. Muller is a good friend of Kemmerich's and feels he deserves the boots more than the orderlies who will surely take them.