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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    Petition #
    First Name
    Postcode
    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
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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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