FORMER Great Sankey High School pupil Lee Hamblett has been braving temperatures of minus 40 degrees Celsius with the army in Canada.
The 19-year-old is helping with the Army's biggest annual repair programme at the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS), which covers 1,000 square miles of the Canadian prairie.
More than 900 vehicles from trucks to tanks undergo repair and maintenance in preparation for the summer season of battle group exercises.
Lee, 19, is serving as a vehicle mechanic with the Royal Electrical Mechanical Engineers (REME) and is normally based in Germany.
The former window cleaner said: "This is my first time in Canada and it's quite a place - very big.
"It's certainly very different from back home. I've even been to the Rocky Mountains."
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