WWII British sniping accessory The author Capt. Shore “wearing a black ‘night cowl’ which proved to be a most useful little gadget for night work – dusk and dawn. One of the bitter complaints which the British troops had against the Boers, during the Boer War, was the fact that you couldn’t see the blighters on account of their whiskers, especially the older ones who wore a full suit of hair.” WBSTTR – Shore 1948 fp 279