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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:
Please sign our petitionThank you to those who have signed the petition, please share.
Petition # | First Name | Postcode |
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601 | Ray | 4077 |
602 | Kirsty | 2850 |
603 | Alex | 2850 |
604 | Nick | 3070 |
605 | Jenny | 3140 |
606 | Leonard | 3140 |
607 | Bernard | 3812 |
608 | Frances | 3813 |
609 | Stuart | 5351 |
610 | Amanda | 5114 |
611 | Ken | 3438 |
612 | Terry | 5049 |
613 | Ian | 3029 |
614 | Graham | 5070 |
615 | Robert | 5159 |
616 | Rita | 5043 |
617 | Trevor | 5159 |
618 | Cassandra | 5062 |
619 | Mari | 5093 |
620 | Len | 5045 |
621 | Brett | 2027 |
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?"