Cecil Frederick Dampier


Admiral Cecil Frederick Dampier, CMG 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.
He was posted to the gunnery ship Cambridge off Plymouth on 27 May 1902.
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.