Anthony Alexander Forrest

Anthony Alexander Forrest (20 November 1884 – 15 May 1901) was an Australian rules footballer and soldier who was killed in the Second Boer War.

Forrest enlisted in the 5th Western Australian Mounted Infantry in 1900, and was killed the following year near Carolina, Transvaal, at the age of 16.

[citation needed] His father was an explorer and surveyor who later served as Mayor of Perth, and represented the seat of West Kimberley in the Western Australian Legislative Assembly.

Forrest was the bowman for the crew that won the first Head of the River race in 1899 and kept wicket for the school's cricket team.

The 5th Contingent were involved in several skirmishes in April, and in the following month, May, crossed to Ermelo, under the command of General Bindon Blood.

His father, already in ill health, was said to be "shattered" at his son's death, and died barely a month later,[4] and his uncle, Sir John Forrest, at the time federal Minister for Defence, was cabled in Melbourne with the news.