Cecil Frederick Dampier

Cecil Frederick Dampier CMG
Photographed by Walter Stoneman in 1918
Born	(1868-05-11)11 May 1868
Died	11 April 1950(1950-04-11) (aged 81) Gloucester, England
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	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.

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]

References

1. "No. 27150". The London Gazette. 2 January 1900. p. 3.
2. "Naval & Military intelligence". The Times. No. 36769. London. 16 May 1902. p. 11.
3. Brown, David K. (2003). The Grand Fleet: Warship Design and Development 1906–1922 (reprint of the 1999 ed.). London: Caxton Editions. p. 161. ISBN 1-84067-531-4.
4. Dampier Service Record. ADM 196/42. f. 497.
5. UK National Archives ADM 1/8539/253 Capabilities of distantly controlled boats. Reports of trials at Dover 28 - 31 May 1918
6. "No. 31099". The London Gazette (Supplement). 1 January 1919. p. 109.