Neil Pearson

Neil Alan Pearson (9 September 1925 – 27 April 2011) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Family The son of Leslie John Ramsay Pearson, and May Eleanor Pearson, née Brown, Neil Alan Pearson was born at Ballarat, on 9 September 1925. His younger brother Ian played at St Kilda and Hawthorn. Military service Pearson enlisted three weeks after his eighteenth birthday, serving in Townsville and New Guinea with the Royal Australian Air Force.