Ghillie suit when viewed using these methods. The ghillie suit was developed by Scottish gamekeepers as a portable hunting blind. Lovat Scouts, a Scottish Highland regiment formed by the British Army during the Second Boer War, is the first known military unit to use ghillie suits. In 1916, Lovat Scouts went on to become the British Army's first sniper unit. The term "ghillie" is derived from "gille" (), the Scottish Gaelic for "servant" or a "lad". In English, this term was especially used to refer to those assisting in deer hunting, deer stalking or fly fishing expeditions in the Scottish Highlands. The
Gillie Larew "Randolph–Macon's most valuable alumna". The annual Gillie A. Larew Distinguished Teaching Award is the oldest of Randolph College's faculty awards. A portrait of Larew by painter Winslow Williams, commissioned in 1986 by the alumnae of Randolph-Macon Woman's College, is part of the permanent collection of the Maier Museum at Randolph College. Gillie Larew Gillie Aldah Larew (July 28, 1882 – January 2, 1977) was an American mathematician, the first alumna of Randolph–Macon Woman's College to become a full professor there, and eventually the dean of the college. Larew was the daughter of farmer and lawyer Captain I. H. Larew, and