Arthur Quiller-Couch left unfinished at Quiller-Couch's death and was completed many years later by Daphne du Maurier. As she wrote in the "Sunday Telegraph" on April 1962, she began the job with considerable trepidation, at the request of Quiller-Couch's daughter and "in memory of happy evenings long ago when 'Q' was host at Sunday supper". He features as a main character, played by Leo McKern, in the 1992 BBC television feature "The Last Romantics". The story focuses on his relationship with his protégé, F. R. Leavis, and the students. His Cambridge inaugural lecture series, published as "On the Art of Writing", is
Bevil Quiller-Couch the Somme and in August of that year he was promoted to acting Major. In September 1917, he was wounded during the Third Battle of Ypres. He was later involved at Cambrai, and by January 1918 went on leave back to England. Towards the end of the war, Quiller-Couch led his battery into action at Noyelles. He last saw action in November 1918 before joining the reserve forces at Villers Pol. Quiller-Couch survived the war without injury only to die at Langerwehe, near Düren in Germany, on 6 February 1919 during the Spanish flu pandemic. He was buried at Cologne,