16th Battalion Cheshire Regiment
At Great Rissington Church there is a picture frame containing the photographs of the five brothers from the village who were killed during the Great War. The sons of William and Annie Souls – Albert, Walter, Frederick, Alfred and Arthur all died within two years of each other; Alfred and Arthur were identical twins born an hour apart and died five days apart.
The older boys, Frederick, Alfred and Arthur enlisted originally in the 16th Cheshire Regiment, a bantam battalion raised to take recruits otherwise too small for the army.
Frederick went missing in action on 19 July 1916; he was 30 years of age. His body was never found and he is remembered on the Thiepval Memorial.