John Gordon Scott Forrest (28 April 1917 – 14 September 1942) was a Scotland international rugby union player.
[1][2] John Forrest was born in Rhodesia and educated at Strathallan School in Perthshire and St Catharine's College, Cambridge where he read medicine.
[3] John Forrest was serving as a lieutenant in the Air Branch of the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve based at HMS Blackcap when he lost his life in 1942.
He never looked back, got his Blue as a Fresher, and from that, my first view of him to my last when I saw him get a try "in a hundred" last year at Taunton he never gave a bad or a poor game in my seeing.
He and H. D. Freakes, the two mighty opposites in a well-remembered tackle in a Varsity match, when both were in the centre, have now made the great sacrifice, lamented by all who ever knew them or only saw them play.
I preferred him in the centre, where his running and serving and side-stepping and kicking and passing gave me no end of pleasure; and I am sure that in this modest and charming young Scotsman we have lost a great rugby footballer in the making.