Downtime with 2nd Battalion Royal Anglian Regiment finds Pt. Franklin sketching scenes from his life as a soldier, on deployment, exercise or simply in a quiet moment between duties.
The 27-year-old from Wymondham, near Norwich, has been training with colleagues on Exercise Winter Camp, part of NATO’s Operation Cabrit in Estonia, testing their warfighting and survival skills just miles from the Russian border.
Operating alongside Estonian, French and US forces in temperatures approaching -30C, Op Cabrit is the UK’s contribution to NATO’s Forward Land Forces in the Baltic region, providing reassurance, security and deterrence along the alliance’s eastern flank.
With…