Walter Torrie Forrest

Maj. Walter Torrie Forrest MC (14 November 1880 – 19 April 1917(1917-04-19) (aged 36)) was a Scottish rugby union player and British Army officer who was killed in World War I.

[2] He played for Hawick Rugby Club as a centre and made his international debut for Scotland in 1903 against Wales.

After eight caps, a collarbone injury ended his international career in 1905, but he continued to play for his team in Kelso.

He was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the 1st Roxburgh and Selkirk Volunteer Ride Corps in 1906,[4] and given the same precedence in the King's Own Scottish Borderers in 1908.

[7] Forrest is among the 133 names listed in the memorial to rugby players killed in the Great War at Fromelles in north France.