My brother worked as a mover for one of his first jobs. He bet a coworker he could carry a refrigerator into a house alone. He strapped it to his back and carried it in. I have a picture of him doing this. The only reason the picture exists is it was a stunt, there aren’t other pictures of him working this job, which he did for a couple of years.
Regardless of whether the soldier is posing for a picture, this is a display of a legitimate use case. The Italian Front of WW1 included some… very difficult terrain. Though one imagines in most cases more than one person would be helping carry it.
It could also have been done just for the photo.
My brother worked as a mover for one of his first jobs. He bet a coworker he could carry a refrigerator into a house alone. He strapped it to his back and carried it in. I have a picture of him doing this. The only reason the picture exists is it was a stunt, there aren’t other pictures of him working this job, which he did for a couple of years.
Regardless of whether the soldier is posing for a picture, this is a display of a legitimate use case. The Italian Front of WW1 included some… very difficult terrain. Though one imagines in most cases more than one person would be helping carry it.