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Barry Holmes (diver)

Australian diver

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ94579958 ↗
Source-derived summary

Barry R. Holmes (born 17 August 1935) is an Australian diver. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Barry Holmes (diver)” as australian diver. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1935, 1956, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1935-08-17. The account is most persuasive where Barry, Holmes and diver can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as australian diver. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q94579958. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1935, 1956 and 1960.

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This entry incorporates text from “Barry Holmes (diver)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.