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
Jean Gillie Later, however, it has gained an appreciative new audience among film noir aficionados after being included in Volume 4 of the Warner Bros. issued DVD series "Film Noir Classics Collection", released in the US in 2007, when it was described in "Entertainment Weekly" as a "weird but transfixing tale". In 1947 Gillie appeared in the Gregory Peck vehicle "The Macomber Affair", which turned out to be her final film. Her marriage to Bernhard had quickly run into trouble, and the couple divorced. Gillie returned to Britain in 1948 but had no time to revive her British career, as she died