Cecil Dampier
Royal Navy Admiral (1868–1950)
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Admiral Cecil Frederick Dampier CMG (11 May 1868 – 11 April 1950) was a Royal Navy officer during the First World War.
United Kingdom
Royal NavyCecil Dampier | |
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Photographed by Walter Stoneman in 1918 | |
| Born | 11 May 1868 |
| Died | 11 April 1950 (aged 81) Gloucester, England |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Branch | Royal Navy |
| Rank | Admiral |
| Commands | Cambridge Audacious |
| Conflicts | First World War |
| Awards | Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George |
Naval career
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]