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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    Rohan
    3793
    527
    Br6
    6036
    528
    Jeanette
    3220
    529
    Courtney
    2380
    530
    Mark
    2799
    531
    John
    4014
    532
    Gary
    2440
    533
    Lulu
    2096
    534
    Douglas
    4814
    535
    Graham
    4670
    536
    Debbie
    2326
    537
    Chris
    3061
    538
    Cheryl
    5290
    539
    Grant
    5161
    540
    Ruth
    5253
    541
    Jodie
    3192
    542
    Geoff
    5155
    543
    John
    4215
    544
    Zoe
    5159
    545
    Peter
    2581
    546
    Lynnette
    4655
    547
    Kerry
    5018
    548
    Graham
    5043
    549
    Kym and Judy
    5351
    550
    John
    4718
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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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