Bob Barry

Robert William Barry (9 September 1878 – 3 December 1915) was a New Zealand cricketer and soldier who played one match of first-class cricket for Canterbury in the 1901–02 season.

Life Barry was born in Akaroa in Canterbury and educated at Akaroa Boys' High School. He fought in one of the New Zealand contingents in the Boer War. On returning to New Zealand he moved to Auckland in 1902 and worked as a clerk for the New Zealand Express Company, a transport firm, for 13 years, resigning in order to enlist for service in the First World War.

He was also a prominent hockey player, who helped to establish the game in Auckland.

In the First World War he served as a sapper with the Divisional Signalling Corps of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. He was wounded and erroneously reported killed in June 1915 during the Gallipoli campaign, but he recovered and returned to the front.