A few years back I saw a documentary about this lady and her sons…..
https://www.bbc.co.uk/gloucestershire/focus/2002/10/soulsbrothers2.shtml
This church is not far from where I live so I rode over there on my motorbike and took some photos…
As far as I know this is the only church in England with photos as part of a memorial inside it..
https://steve1962.smugmug.com/History
Steve
That’s a remarkable story, Steve—a touching tribute to the Souls family of Great Rissington, who lost five sons in the First World War, with a sixth dying at home… about as close to a real-life “Saving Private Ryan” as it gets.
What really hits is how that church keeps their memory alive in such a personal way—photographs instead of just names on stone. Makes it feel less like distant history and more like a family you could’ve known.
Fair play for riding out there and capturing it—those kinds of local memorials are often the most powerful.
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Thanks - in the documentary they talked about some of the other womenfolk in the village resenting her getting army pension money for each son......human nature can be so cruel sometimes.
Steve