October 1915
The Regimental War Diary records that he was wounded in the area of RED LAMP CORNER near Fauquissart on 26th October and died on 27th October. The photographs below were taken by me on the Rue du Tilleloy in Fauquissart on 24 June 2015.
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He is buried in Merville Communal Cemetery with the record entry:-BASKCOMB HARRISON, Arthur Montague Mattison, Lieutenant, Royal Engineers. 27th October 1915. V. A. 19
The Communal Cemetery is located close to Merville town centre and the CWGC sites are within it. There are over 2000 WW1 casualties commemorated on this site (Communal Cemetery & Extension, of which around 350 are unidentified.
We visited the cemetery on 24 June 2015 and put a poppy cross on his grave. His headstone inscribed:-
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.