Collar Badge - The Lovat Scouts. It may also be a Lovat Scouts OR’s cap badge. Small voided brass example. (antlers within circlet) 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.