The golfing medal collection of Brigadier A.G. Barry C.B.E. D.S.O. M.C. dating from 1902 comprising 22ct gold Amateur Golf Championship Medal 1905, 58

The golfing medal collection of Brigadier A.G. Barry C.B.E. D.S.O. M.C. dating from 1902 comprising 22ct gold Amateur Golf Championship Medal 1905, 58.42gms; St Andrews Gold Medal 1904; Buxton and High Peak Golf Club Best Gross Score Medal 1911/12/15 Summer Meeting; Oxford University Golf Club Medal; William IV Medal; Golf De Monte Carole Medal Saison 1921-22; Runners Up Cologne Post Cricket Cup Southern League Medal from Germany 1919; The Strule Ladies Golf Club Scratch Challenge Medal; The University of St Andrews Athletic Union Golf Scratch Medal 1903-04 & Golf Dufferin Medal 1903-04; 18ct gold Army Golfing Society The Black Match Medal 1922; Amateur Scottish Championship Semi-Finalist Medal 1902, (21); together with a scrapbook of photographs and press cuttings; sold with three medals awarded to G. Barbour-Turnbull Esq, 15ct gold Edinburgh Merchant Company Golf Club Weir Gold Medal for the three lowest scores 1912; S.C.C.G.C. Summer Competition Archerfield 1912; 1915 Terraoue Marique Medal, mounted on a velvet board and framed, 41.5 x 33.5 cm, (25) Brigadier A.G. Barry C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. (1885 - 1942) was a professional soldier and an English amateur golfer who won the coveted Amateur Championship title in 1905, and the Army Championship on two occasions in 1922 and 1925. Barry was born in Torpoint, Cornwall, 6th September 1885, and so was just 19 years old and studying at the University of St Andrews when he won the Amateur Championship in 1905 at Prestwick, beating Osmund Scott, who also played First-Class cricket for Gloucestershire, 3 and 2. A year earlier the 18-year-old had won the R&A Gold Medal. In 1905 Barry capped a memorable year by winning the King William IV Medal of the R&A. He then studied at Cambridge University, playing against Oxford in 1906 and 1907. In 1914 he studied at Oxford and played for Oxford against his former university Cambridge. Barry also represented England against Scotland in the annual amateur international in 1906 and 1907. In his army career, Barry gained the M.C. during the Great War; and the D.S.O. in 1919. Later he was promoted to Lt.-Col. In 1935 and Colonel in 1938. Brigadier Barry who resided at The Wynd,in St Andrews, suffered from bad health and was forced to stand down from his army position and died aged 56 in 1942.