Admiral Cecil Frederick Dampier (11 May 1868 – 11 April 1950) was a

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officer during the

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Naval career

Dampier entered the Royal Navy and was promoted to the rank of

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on 1 January 1900. He was posted to the gunnery ship ''Cambridge'' off

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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

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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 in 1917. In May 1918 he was involved in remote control trials of unmanned aerial vehicles by the Royal Navy's D.C.B. Section. He was appointed a Companion of the

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(CMG) in the

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