Cecil Frederick Dampier | |
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Born | 11 May 1868 |
Died | 11 April 1950 Gloucester, England | (aged 81)
Allegiance | United Kingdom |
Service/ | Royal Navy |
Rank | Admiral |
Commands | Cambridge Audacious |
Battles/wars | First World War |
Awards | Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George |
Admiral Cecil Frederick Dampier CMG (11 May 1868 – 11 April 1950) was a Royal Navy officer during the First World War.
Dampier entered the Royal Navy and was promoted to the rank of Commander on 1 January 1900.[1]
He was posted to the gunnery ship Cambridge off Plymouth on 27 May 1902.[2]
He was captain of Audacious, which spent her entire career assigned to the Home and Grand Fleets. She was sunk by a German mine off the northern coast of County Donegal, Ireland, in October 1914.[3]
Dampier was Second-in-Command of a Battle Squadron during the early parts of the First World War, and Admiral-Superintendent at Dover in 1917.[4]
In May 1918 he was involved in remote control trials of unmanned aerial vehicles by the Royal Navy's D.C.B. Section.[5]
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1919 New Year Honours.[6]