At 15:07 Rutland took off in his Type 184 and his observer, Assistant Paymaster George Stanley Trewin, signalled Engadine that they had spotted three German cruisers and five destroyers at 15:30.

[8] Rutland was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) "for his gallantry and persistence in flying within close distance of the enemy light cruisers".

[11] Rutland's Short Type 184, aircraft number 8359, was presented to the Imperial War Museum in 1917, where it was damaged in a German air raid in 1940.

The unrestored forward section of the fuselage is currently on loan from IWM to Fleet Air Arm Museum where it is on display to the public.

[12] On 28 June 1917, Rutland, by now a Flight Commander, took off in a Sopwith Pup from a flying-off platform mounted on the roof of one of the gun turrets of the light cruiser HMS Yarmouth, the first such successful launch of an aircraft in history.

[15] Material released by The National Archives on 10 November 2000 revealed that Rutland had come to the notice of MI5 in 1922 when he decided to resign from the RAF.

After he left the RAF, Rutland moved to Japan where he was employed helping the Imperial Japanese Navy learn about naval aviation.

[17] Later intercepts of Japanese communications showed that Tokyo had paid Rutland to set up a "small agency in Hawaii".

He had subsequently provided technical details which helped the Japanese design aircraft carriers,[18] in the years before the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Some of his former Royal Navy colleagues demanded his release, saying there was no proof of his doing anything illegal in Britain, and that both MI5 and the Americans blundered by not having Rutland help them prevent the Japanese attack.

[3] Rutland is the subject of Beverly Hills Spy, a biography by Ronald Drabkin, published by Harper Collins in February 2024.