Cecil Frederick Dampier

Admiral Cecil Frederick Dampier, CMG (11 May 1868 - 11 April 1950) was a British 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 HMS Cambridge off Plymouth on 27 May 1902.[2]

He 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. ↑ The London Gazette: no. 27150. p. 3. 2 January 1900.
  2. ↑ "Naval & Military intelligence" The Times (London). Friday, 16 May 1902. (36769), p. 11.
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