Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Edwin and Caroline Absolon. In 1911 the family home was at Mill House, South Luffenham, Rutland, present were his father Edwin, a Flour Mill Foreman, born 1840 in Bradwell, Suffolk and his mother Caroline, born 1874 in Primrose Hill, London, Edwin Urquart, a Schoolboy, born 1896 in Kentish Town, London together with his two brothers and sister, Thomas David, a Schoolboy, born 1902 in Coventry, Warwickshire, Gertrude, born 1904 in Battersea, London and Jack William, born 1907 in Battersea, London. Prior to his enlistment he was a clerk in the employ of Messrs. Pontifex & Company, Shoe Lane, London E.C., and was training to be a draughtsman. He enlisted with the 10th Battalion Norfolk Regiment, subsequently transferred to the 8th Battalion. Embarking for France on the 20th July 1915, he fought in the first Battle of the Somme and was killed by a machine gun bullet which struck him in the head at Pommiers Redoubt, Carnoy near Bray-sur-Somme, he was buried at Carnoy, France.