Cecil Frederick Dampier | |
Birth Date: | 11 May 1868 |
Death Place: | Gloucester, England |
Allegiance: | United Kingdom |
Commands: | Cambridge Audacious |
Rank: | Admiral |
Battles: | First World War |
Awards: | Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George |
Admiral Cecil Frederick Dampier (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.
He was posted to the gunnery ship Cambridge off Plymouth on 27 May 1902.[1]
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.[2]
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.[3]
In May 1918 he was involved in remote control trials of unmanned aerial vehicles by the Royal Navy's D.C.B. Section.[4]
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 1919 New Year Honours.