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Mel Pearce

Australian field hockey player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ67888455 ↗
Source-derived summary

Melville George Arthur Pearce (9 January 1928 – 27 April 2011) was an Indian-born Australian field hockey player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Mel Pearce” enters the record as australian field hockey player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pearce, Australian and field can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1928, 2011, 1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1928-01-09. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pearce, Australian and field.
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Why this record matters

“Mel Pearce” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pearce, Australian and field provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q67888455. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1928, 2011 and 1956.

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Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mel Pearce” 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.