Burton of the Flying Corps

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  The cruiser made all speed back to Tenedos. There the spy, a forlorn,chapfallen individual, was taken ashore under an escort of marines.Within a short time a drum-head court-martial was constituted. Papersfound on the prisoner left no doubt of his occupation; his protest thathe was a subject of King Constantine availed him nothing. When thesentence had been pronounced, he recovered his courage and confessedhimself a German, and it was as a German soldier that he paid the finalpenalty.

  Burton's exploit was reported to the Admiralty, and some weeks later,when he returned one evening from reconnoitring the Turkish trenchesafter the landing on the Gallipoli peninsula had been so magnificentlyaccomplished, he was welcomed with the news that he had been awarded theDistinguished Service Medal by the King.