 He served in the British Army with the 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers and was posted missing, aged 34, during the Battle of the Somme in France on 7 July 1916 as a Company Serjeant Major.His remains were not recovered, and his name is recorded on the Thiepval Memorial.Below is the record of William Philo, a British middleweight boxer who competed at the 1908 London Olympics