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 Potter to "Merrie England," to the age, in short, of the music-hall, and can have no place in programmes designed for this era of Priestley and "Penguins" when the British public remains unentertained unless basking in the limelight of a benevolent internationalism. He continued to broadcast through the war but his style went out of fashion in the post-war years. His last radio series was broadcast in 1952, titled "Mr. Gillie Potter" and his last broadcasts as a comedian on radio were for "Coronation at Hogsnorton" in 1953. That year he also appeared on television for "A Little of What you