| Anthony Forrest | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Personal information | |||
| Full name | Anthony Alexander Forrest | ||
| Date of birth | 20 November 1884[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Perth, Western Australia | ||
| Date of death | 15 May 1901 (aged 16) | ||
| Place of death | near Carolina, Transvaal | ||
| Original team(s) | The High School | ||
| Position(s) | Ruckman, ruck-rover | ||
| Playing career1 | |||
| Years | Club | Games (Goals) | |
| 1900 | Perth | 2 (0) | |
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1 Playing statistics correct to the end of 1900. | |||
Anthony Alexander Forrest (20 November 1884 – 15 May 1901) was an Australian rules footballer and soldier who was killed in the Second Boer War. The son of Alexander Forrest, a politician and twice Mayor of Perth, he attended The High School (now Hale School) in Perth, Western Australia. Aged 15, he also played two games of senior football for the Perth Football Club in what is now the West Australian Football League (WAFL), becoming one of the youngest players to play in that league. 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.[2] He was the first Western Australian footballer to be killed on active duty, and the only Western Australian footballer killed in the Boer War.