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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    Postcode
    476
    Anthony
    3976
    477
    Melissa
    5091
    478
    Wendy
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    479
    Hayden
    5109
    480
    Alysha
    5409
    481
    Alysha
    5109
    482
    lynne
    5074
    483
    Neville
    5074
    484
    David
    3215
    485
    Mick
    3180
    486
    Helen
    3180
    487
    Emma
    5126
    488
    Jean-Pierre
    3192
    489
    Geoffrey
    5211
    490
    Wal
    5013
    491
    Janiece
    2213
    492
    Kate
    5098
    493
    Peter
    3133
    494
    Pandora
    2026
    495
    David
    5211
    496
    Michael
    48317
    497
    Philip
    3195
    498
    Graham
    3338
    499
    Lorraine
    3429
    500
    Rebecca
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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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