Douglas Gamble
{{Short description|Royal Navy officer (1856–1934)}}
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|name= Sir Douglas Gamble
|birth_date= {{birth date|1856|11|08|df=y}}
|death_date={{death date and age|1934|05|23|1856|11|08|df=y}}
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|allegiance= {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} United Kingdom
|serviceyears= 1870-1917
|rank= Admiral
|commands= HMS Hyacinth
HMS Kent
HMS Canopus
HMS Vernon
4th Battle Squadron
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|battles=World War I
|awards= Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order
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Admiral Sir Douglas Austin Gamble {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|KCVO}} (8 November 1856 – 23 May 1934) was a Royal Navy officer who commanded the 4th Battle Squadron.
Naval career
Gamble joined the Royal Navy in 1870.{{cite web|url=http://www.kcl.ac.uk/lhcma/locreg/GAMBLE.shtml|title=Douglas Gamble|publisher=Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives|accessdate=5 October 2014}} After serving in the Naval Intelligence Department at the Admiralty from 1893, he became commanding officer of the protected cruiser HMS Hyacinth in 1902, commanding officer of the armoured cruiser HMS Kent in 1903 and commanding officer of the battleship HMS Canopus in 1905 before becoming commanding officer of the torpedo school HMS Vernon in 1907.{{cite book|last=Blond|first=A|title= Technology and Tradition|page= 167|year=1993|publisher=University of Lancaster}}
Gamble became Naval Advisor to the Turkish Government in 1909 and Commander of the 6th Cruiser Squadron in 1910. The Census 1911 shows him on {{HMS|Bacchante|1901|6}} with his Flag Captain Reginald Tyrwhitt and Flag Lieutenant Bertram Ramsay.National Archives via ancestry.co.uk He then served in World War I as Commander of the 4th Battle Squadron with his flag in the battleship HMS Benbow from 1914{{cite web|url=http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |title=Senior Royal Navy appointments |accessdate=4 October 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120315105247/http://www.gulabin.com/armynavy/pdf/Senior%20Royal%20Navy%20Appointments%201900-.pdf |archivedate=15 March 2012}} before joining the Naval War Staff at the Admiralty in 1915 and retiring in 1917.