Images Dated 13th June 2019

Sempill British Aviation Mission to Japan

Shinto ceremony at opening of the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Station at Kasumi-ga-ura, July 1921. William Francis Forbes-Sempill, 19th Lord Sempill AFC, AFRAeS (1893-1965) was a Scottish peer and record-breaking air pioneer who was later shown to have passed secret information to the Imperial Japanese military before the Second World War. In 1921, Sempill led an official military mission to Japan that showcased the latest British aircraft. In subsequent years he continued to aid the Imperial Japanese Navy in developing its Navy Air Service and began giving military secrets to the Japanese. Although his activities were uncovered by British Intelligence, Sempill was not prosecuted for spying and allowed to continue in public life. Date: 1921

Ickworth House near Bury St. Edmunds Suffolk, England

Visitors walk towards Ickworth House, a country house near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England. The neoclassical building set in parkland. The house was the residence of the Marquess of Bristol before being sold to the National Trust in 1998. Date: 1988

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library

Bristol, Bury, Dunn, Edmunds, England, House, Ickworth, Marquess, Neoclassical, Philip, Photography, St, Street, Suffolk

Picking flowers below Ludwigs Castle, Fussen, Bavaria

A mother and her small boy pick flowers in a meadow below Neuschwanstein Castle, aka King Ludwig's Castle, a 19th-century Romanesque Revival palace on a hill above the village of Hohenschwangau on the Romantic Road (Romantische Strasse) near Fssen in southwest Bavaria, Germany. Vertical format Date: 1988

© Philip Dunn / Mary Evans Picture Library