We get our ideas on camouflage from wild animals, which are usually coloured in such a way as to blend with their natural surroundings. The application of the same idea to war purposes was first suggested to a Government Department by Professor (now Sir John) Graham Kerr, who in September 1.914, put forward to the First Lord of the Admiralty methods of making ships at sea less easily recognised —in particular, by means of counter-shading, and disruptive colouration or “dazzled.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 August 1943, Page 3
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