Unit History: Lovat Scouts

The Lovat Scouts were a British Army unit.
 
The unit was first formed during the Second Boer War as a Scottish Highland yeomanry regiment of the British Army and is the first known military unit to wear a ghillie suit.
 
In 1916, these scouts formally became the British Army’s first sniper unit, then known as sharpshooters.
 
Disbanded as a regiment in Greece in 1947.
 
The name and capbadge is carried on by the Orkney Independent Cadet Battery ACF.