flamethrower on minefields (???)

[Federico]

Hi guys, I'm painting a WW2 North African British army and my next unit is the combat engineers https://www.pendraken.co.uk/nbrf55-ncombat-engineers-3529-p.asp
I really like the detector guy (we are DETECTORISTS!!!)...
The kneeling soldier is probably probing the ground, I'll add a blade or something in his hand.
It's the third guy it puzzles me.
I'm wondering if there was a use for a flamethrower on minefields or is just a "different kind of engineering" he's got in mind
Cheers

[kipt]

I believe that is the mine detector.

[Federico]

well, the backpack it's really similar to a truck air chamber and it looks connected with a tube to the tool in his hands. idk, I'm looking at some WW2 flamethrowers pictures and the fuel tank looks the same...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamethrower,_Portable,_No_2

[Ithoriel]

It's a flamethrower.

I got a pack in a mixed lot on EBay along with the Soviet versions I actually wanted.

I will confess to not having looked terribly closely at them at the time and to not being entirely sure which box they've wound up in.

My memory of them was that there were three standing poses in the pack. Mine detector (or pizza on a pole?), flamethrower and a guy I thought was carrying a demolition charge but I was never entirely sure ... and, since he clearly wasn't Russian, I didn't much care what he had!

Pretty much covered what combat engineers might be up to on the battlefield for me.

[Federico]

It's clearly a pizza on a pole. The flamethrower is for the cooking

[Ithoriel]

Ah, yes, flame grilled pizza!

The third guy is clearly carrying a self assembly barbecue grill.

Combat culinary engineers - extreme cooking!