HM Drifter Our Allies

[DMcNay]

hi guys,

Wonder if someone could fill me in. This fellow appears on my Bank of Scotland Roll of Honour, and I've been trying to find out some information about the ship he was on, with no success. Can anyone enlighten me?

Name: GRIERSON, WILLIAM

Initials: W

Nationality: United Kingdom

Rank: Signalman

Regiment/Service: Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve

Unit Text: H.M. Drifter Our Allies.

Age: 21

Date of Death: 22/10/1918

Service No: Clyde Z/7977

Additional information: Son of Thomas and Christian Grierson, of 4, Battery Place, Glasswork St., Kirkcaldy, Fife.

Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead

Grave/Memorial Reference: 3.

Cemetery: GALLIPOLI COMMUNAL CEMETERY

I know that he worked at he Auchtermuchty branch of the BoS and he died of influenza, but that's the sum total of my knowledge about him.

What kind of ship would this have been? What size? What duties would it have carried out? More importantly, any pictures of it?

Thanks,

David

[Malcolm]

HM Drifter OUR ALLIES, Port No LT492 ( Lowestoft) , Admiralty No 2206, 91 tons launched 1915, a net drifter requisitioned August 1915 and returned 1920. armed with a 57mm gun.

Aye

Malcolm

[historydavid]

David, from Admiralty death record card:

GRIERSON, WILLIAM, SIGNALMAN, RNVR, CLYDE Z 7977, OUR ALLIES, 22-Oct-18, ILLNESS.

Best wishes

David