An official account has been published of the remarkable act
for which Lieutenant G. D'Oyly-Hughes, R.N., has received the D.S.O. Last August Mr. D'Oyly-Hughes volunteered to swim ashore from a submarine and try to blow up a bridge on the Ismid railway. As he swam he pushed a small raft in front of him bearing his clothes, a revolver, a bayonet, and his explosives. The bridge was too well guarded for an attempt on it to be possible, so Mr. D'Oyly-Hughes decided to blow up a small culvert. Re succeeded in doing this, although ne was within one hundred and fifty yards of a patrol of three men. The patrol pursued him, and he kept up a running fight with them till he regained the beach. Unfortunately had to take a roundabout course during this fight, and when he plunged into the sea again be was a long way from the submarine. After swimming about a mile he was picked up by the submarine in an exhausted condition.
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