In 1899, Simon Joseph Fraser, the 14th Lord Lovat, established the “Lovat Scouts”, a unit of highlanders for the British Army to fight in the Boer war. The training grounds for the unit was Lovat’s home of Beaufort Castle. The Lovat Scouts were disbanded after the Boer war but then shortly reinstated and reformed into two battalions, one with sharpshooters becoming the British Army’s first sniper unit.