Hampshire, Cyril Beauchamp, Commander, 1874-1956.

There are two logs, 1890 to 1894, but no papers survive for Hampshire's subsequent peacetime service. The loose papers and charts relate to the Aegean, 1915 to 1919.

Administrative / biographical background
Hampshire was born at Torquay in Devon in 1874 and entered the Navy in 1888. He served from 1890 to 1892 in the Benbow and Immortalite, Mediterranean Station and from late 1892 in the Cleopatra, North America and West Indies Station. He became a lieutenant in 1896 and retired in 1910 as a commander, although he served again during the First World War. He was present at the Dardanelles landing and later commanded the St. George, base ship at Mudros. He died in South Africa in 1956.