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
Ghillie Basan Ghillie Basan Ghillie Başan (born 30 August 1962) is a Scottish-based food and travel writer, cook and workshop host. Her books have been nominated for the Glenfiddich, Guild of Food Writers’, and Cordon Bleu awards. Brought up in Kenya where her parents were doctors, Basan was sent to boarding school in Scotland from where she got an entrance to the University of Edinburgh to study languages. Once at the University, Basan switched her course from languages to social anthropology. Basan met her husband in Turkey and they moved to live in the United States for two years before returning to