Wartime, home made silencer

[Merle]

Although mounting a machine gun on an elephant may seem like a bit of a joke today, I'm guessing that when the photograph was taken it probably seemed like a perfectly sensible thing to do. I suppose today that the military may wish to mount a MG on it's transport which could be a truck or armoured vehicle but back in the day, in certain parts of the world, the military's main modes of transport would have probably have been horses and perhaps elephants?

I have seen pics of MGs mounted on camels too - who knows what all animals have been drafted as carriers.....