Mrs. Constance Shacklock:

>Have other composers pursued military careers? I recall in my youth seeing
>a fetching picture of Dmitri Shostakovich during the siege of Stalingrad
>wearing not only his customary little round glasses but a dashing fireman's
>helmet.

And Fritz Kreisler left the security of then neutral USA to return
to Austria during WWI to serve in its army, where he held a reserve
commission.

And, BTW, Dimitri Shostakovich was in Leningrad, not Stalingrad, while
it was besieged.

Walter Meyer