Captain Augustus Bedford “Duke” Forrest was a surgeon assigned to the 4077th M*A*S*H* who arrived with Hawkeye Pierce in both the original novel M*A*S*H* - A Novel About Three Army Doctors in 1968 which was written by Richard Hooker (actual name H. Richard Hornberger) and the 1970 Academy Award-winning film which was directed by Robert Altman.