[1] The speedy backrower also played in five test matches for Australia in 1937/38.
[2] Pierce also played for City Firsts and New South Wales on six occasions between 1937 and 1943.
While playing football, Pierce also served in the New South Wales Police Force and in 2008, rugby league's centennial year in Australia, he was named as a reserve in a NSW Police team of the century.
He died at Bondi, New South Wales on 12 December 1975, 41 days short of his 63rd birthday.
This rugby league football biography relating to an Australian born in the 1910s is a stub.