This reminds me of the scene in the 193 adaptation of Erich Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, where Paul and his comrades are sitting around a tree, eating, and talking about how the British (that meaning, the average Tommy) didn't want to be in this war more than they did. I would say WWI was perhaps one of the last wars in which chivalry and compassion were a common trait amongst the average soldiers, Allied and Central Powers alike.