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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    Brad
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    577
    Rania
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    578
    David
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    579
    John
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    Peter
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    Ian
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    Michael
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    585
    Ron
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    586
    Neil
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    587
    Scott
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    588
    Jack
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    589
    Henry
    3029
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    shauna
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    591
    Peter
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    592
    Daniel John
    2222
    593
    Kenneth
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    594
    GREG
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    Rocky
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    596
    Rhonda
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    597
    Lynne
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    598
    Ricardo
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    599
    JULIAN
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    600
    Bob
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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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