This image from the VDKM, the Lithuanian national archives, shows infantrymen of the newly free Lithuanian Armed Forces mugging with a (Bactrian?) camel reportedly seized from the Bolsheviks. The photo comes from Kaunas (Kovno), in 1919.
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Note the mix of German and Russian gear with Stalhelms and Mauser 98s very present. The camel jockey, meanwhile, sports a Mosin.
The Lithuanians, who later benefitted from Allied military missions and inherited a lot of surplus Tsarist gear, also managed to land lots of the Kaiser’s swag as well. This gave them a very peculiar arsenal from 1919 through 1939.
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Lithuanian army troops, 1919. Note the Mosin 91s and Russian Pulitov-Maxim gun while the uniforms are a mix of East-meets-West
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Lithuanian soldiers practice firing their U.S.-made British P14 .303-caliber rifles in a 1931 summer training exercise, along with German infantry gear.
Still, they probably just had the one camel.
