He fell in October 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front, that the army report confined itself to a single sentence: All quiet on the Western Front.

He had fallen foward and lay on the earth as though sleeping. Turning him over one saw that the could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come. [last lines]

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front