Sniper's Smock Ghillie S 1945

[Nigel]

I've been trying to find the recent thread where Peter refers to the typical summer dress of British/Canadian snipers in 1944 Europe. The item Peter refers to is pictured in the photo of a pair of No.3 Commando snipers in Normandy about to be sent out on a mission (sniper on the left is wearing what looks like a giant green string vest with sleeves and a hood. And then I saw one at a militaria fair - with a label marked Smock Ghillie S and on the reverse a Broad Arrow and 1945. What look like holes made by moths are actually equally spaced and I believe are for a draw string. It was in unused condition. Very rare because I can't see how this would survive more than a couple of months crawling and stuffing vegetation in to it.

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