“They wear undersized shorts, like football trunks” the press announced in hushed tones…… Here, Rhodesian soldiers of the Selous Volunteer Battalion on patrol in Eastern Karelia, Summer 1940. The rifles are the Maavoimat-issued Lahti-Salaranta 7.62mm SLR’s that were, by mid-1940, in general use across all front-line infantry formations of the Maavoimat.