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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    426
    Angela
    5000
    427
    Mark
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    428
    Fergus
    5000
    429
    William
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    430
    Margaret
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    431
    Roderick
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    432
    Ray
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    433
    Andrew
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    434
    Ian
    2906
    435
    James
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    436
    Derek
    2537
    437
    Robert Phillip
    2026
    438
    Martin
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    439
    Warren
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    440
    Peter
    2463
    441
    Robyn
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    442
    Christine
    2251
    443
    Loryn
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    444
    Wendy
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    445
    Wendy
    5091
    446
    Ashlee
    5126
    447
    Jenni
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    448
    Elaine
    5125
    449
    Jenny
    3500
    450
    Christine
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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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