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Cecil Frederick Dampier

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Admiral Cecil Frederick Dampier, CMG (11 May 1868 – 11 April 1950) was a British 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.

Dampier was Second-in-Command of a Battle Squadron during the early parts of the First World War, and Admiral-Superintendent at Dover 1917-18.

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG).

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. template uses deprecated parameter(s) (help)
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