Death
Maxim died in London on November 24, 1916, as World War I raged on. He is buried in West Norwood Cemetery with Lady Sarah Maxim and his grandson, Lt. Colonel Maxim Joubert.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
“In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”
—Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)
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