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Saints Choirboy nearly drops in on mum
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Saints choirboy Karl Weston dropped in to see his mother
the other day. Not literally, but it was good to see her,
he said.
Karl,
now Lt. K Weston RN, a member of the helicopter flight
team on HMS Endurance, was part of a Royal Navy
Recruiting team that called in to Maidstone Grammar
School in the ship’s Lynx helicopter.
As
the helicopter flew over Maidstone to the school he just
could not resist diverting by a couple of streets to pass
over his mother’s house.
Mrs
Trish Weston, forewarned, waved to her son as he passed
overhead.
The
couple made contact later, when Karl and his colleagues
from 212 Flight had spoken to the boys at the school
about life in the Navy.
He
told them that HMS Endurance spends about seven months a
year in the South Atlantic as a survey ship. At the end
of a tour of duty they call in at either one of the South
American or South African countries before heading home.
Story
and photograph courtesy of Downs Mail.