Kelly survived the Gallipoli slaughter, only to die at Beaucourt-sur-l'Ancre, France, when rushing a German machine gun post in the last days of the Battle of the Somme in November 1916. He lies in Martinsart's British Cemetery not far from where he fell at the age of 35. Of the dozen composers killed at the Somme, Kelly is the only one to have a marked grave; as a mark of the respect they accorded him, his men had retrieved his body and carried it back through No Man's Land.