John Oldroyd Forfar, MC, FRSE (16 November 1916 – 14 August 2013) was a Scottish paediatrician and academic.

[8] He briefly served with the 11th Field Ambulance,[3] before attending the Commando Training Centre in Achnacarry, Scotland.

[3] The battalion was ordered to travel 12 miles (19 km) inland and attack the area from inside enemy territory.

There was prolonged fighting but the British finally captured the area by dusk of 7 June, the day after the landings.

[5] It was strongly defended by the Germans and General Eisenhower described the battle as "one of the most gallant and aggressive actions of the war".

[4] That year he spent a short time in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London,[3] and achieved a Diploma in Child Health (DCH).

[4] In 1948, he was promoted to consultant paediatrician at Dundee Royal Infirmary and senior lecturer in child health at the University of St Andrews.

[4] In the same year he was appointed to the Edward Clark Chair as Professor of Child Life and Health at the University of Edinburgh.

On 22 March 1945, it was gazetted that Forfar had been awarded the Military Cross (MC) and had been mentioned in dispatches 'in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North West Europe'.

[12][13] The event meriting the award of a Military Cross occurred on 3 November 1944[3] and the citation can be summed up as 'for his bravery in tending wounded fellow Commandos under heavy fire at Walcheren in the Netherlands'.

[5] He was mentioned in dispatches by Lieutenant General Sir Brian Horrocks for his role in the treatment of wounded Royal Marines during the assault on Port-en-Bessin in 1944.

[9] In 2016 a luxury small scale holiday village was completed, right behind the dunes of Dishoek at the coast of Walcheren.

The son of John Forfar, together with a number of veterans, was present at the ceremony to reveal the streetsign on 2 November 2015.