Du Yingrong and Lu Suying, a childless couple from Shanghai, lived an extraordinarily frugal life to help others. Living in a tiny apartment with second-hand furniture, they frequently split a single $2.50 canteen meal and mended their glasses with adhesive tape. Behind their quiet lifestyle was immense generosity. Over decades, they quietly donated their lifetime savings of 5 million yuan (~$735,000 USD) to charity. Their selfless contributions paid for life-saving heart operations for 455 children suffering from congenital heart defects, leaving behind a profound legacy of quiet devotion and human kindness.

I've always loved this picture because it's a rare photo showing the very moment that someone is freed from captivity.

In his report dated 15th October 1907, Commander Litchfield wrote that the ship received ‘six fugitives’ on a cruise off the Batineh Coast, Oman between 10th and 14th October.

One of the fugitives had been manacled for three years and had escaped with his leg irons still on.

Samuel Chidwick, the son of the photographer, said: “The pictures were taken by my father who was serving aboard HMS Sphinx while on armed patrol off the Zanzibar and Mozambique coast in about 1907.

They caught quite a few slavers and those particular slaves that are in the pictures happened while he was on watch. That night a dhow (sailing vessel) sailed by and the slaves were all chained together.

He raised the alarm and they got them onto the ship and got the chains knocked off them. They then questioned them and sent a party of marines ashore to try to track the slave traders down."