Admiral Sir Ernest Frederick Augustus Gaunt, KCB, KBE, CMG (25 March 1865 – 20 April 1940)[1] was an Australian-born Royal Navy officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, Western Approaches.

[7] The vessel visited Constanța, the main seaport of Romania, in October 1902,[8] then travelled on the Danube to Galați.

[10][11] In December 1903, he commanded a landing party from Mohawk at Durbo, on the coast of Italian Somaliland, where he was wounded.

[2][12] In 1905, as commander of HMS Cambrian, he took possession of the Ashmore Islands in the Indian Ocean on behalf of the United Kingdom.

In 1899, he married Louise Geraldine Martyn of Gregans Castle, near Ballyvaughan in County Clare, Ireland.