Only 101 Australians have been awarded the Victoria Cross, our highest military honour for bravery in wartime.

Shockingly, the remains of ANZAC Victoria Cross hero Sergeant Samuel Pearse VC MM, killed in action in 1919, are currently stored in a plastic bag, in a plastic box, in a remote Russian morgue, awaiting DNA identification before authorities will consider a dignified burial with military honours.

Six years after the remains were discovered on the century old battlefield there has been no progress towards a resolution.

We need your help to lobby the federal government to ensure Samuel Pearse VC MM is identified and given the honourable burial he deserves:

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    First Name
    Postcode
    301
    Sharon
    2147
    302
    Shirley
    4413
    303
    Graeme
    3724
    304
    Dennis
    3902
    305
    Patricia
    3351
    306
    Kevin
    2263
    307
    Timothy
    5065
    308
    Brad
    4701
    309
    Margot
    4352
    310
    Lindsay
    2540
    311
    Phil
    21190
    312
    Louise
    6156
    313
    Barbara
    3198
    314
    Vicki
    0812
    315
    Eugene
    5039
    316
    Myf
    2148
    317
    Glenys
    5275
    318
    Evan
    5275
    319
    Rebecca
    5252
    320
    Teri
    6069
    321
    Amanda
    4101
    322
    Malcolm
    5063
    323
    Elizabeth
    3338
    324
    Susan
    3222
    325
    John
    3690
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    As the author of  Australia's Lost Heroes, Damien Wright says, "How can a nation that honours the supreme sacrifice of its citizens at such hallowed sites as the Australian War Memorial; at a host of memorial halls and statues scattered across the nation; and yet leave one of its Victoria Cross heroes to lie in a plastic bag within a blue plastic crate in a remote corner of Russia? 

    After more than a century of neglect, and nearly six years after the Australian and British embassies have been notified, who will take action to end the continuing indignity?"    

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