YEOVILTON LIFE: Aarron receives HMS Heron award

EXCEPTIONAL character and professional performance singled out Leading Air Engineering Technician Aarron Clayton as HMS Heron’s most deserving recipient of the Merchants Taylors’ Military Award for 2014.

LAET Clayton and his wife Michelle attended the Merchant Taylors' Company, Military Affiliates’ Awards Dinner on Tuesday (November 11, 2014) – Armistice Day – in London.

HMS Heron at RNAS Yeovilton is one of six military units affiliated to The Company and the air station’s award winner and his wife accompanied the Commanding Officer, Commodore Jock Alexander OBE, to represent HMS Heron at the dinner in London.

Prior to the dinner, LAET Clayton was presented the traditional military affiliates award, a silver hipflask, by The Master of The Merchant Taylors’ Company, Peter Watkins.

PHOTO: LAET Aarron Clayton is pictured receiving the Merchant Taylors’ Military Affiliates Award from The Master, Peter Watkins.

LAET Clayton said: “It was a great honour to be selected as HMS Heron’s nominee for this award.  I thoroughly enjoy my work maintaining Lynx helicopters for 815 Squadron and working in the Fleet Air Arm.  My wife Michelle and I had a great evening with The Merchant Taylors in London.”

The formal nomination by HMS Heron highlighted LAET Clayton’s impressive, committed and enthusiastic performance while serving on the Lynx Wildcat Maritime Force at RNAS Yeovilton.

He is currently employed as an engineering supervisor within 815 Naval Air Squadron’s maritime counter terrorism section where he maintains this small section’s Lynx aircraft that are permanently on call.

LAET Clayton was born in Southampton but his family roots are in Cheshire.  He joined the Royal Navy in 2004 and has served at RNAS Yeovilton and on Her Majesty’s Ships Montrose and Edinburgh.

He and his wife Michelle live in Martock, Somerset with their young daughter Elizabeth Rose.

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