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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    Dean
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    177
    Sandra
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    178
    Patrick
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    179
    Michael
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    180
    David
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    Greg
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    Lenard
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    Grant
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    184
    Gavin
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    Jodi
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    186
    Elaine
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    187
    John
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    188
    Grant
    5161
    189
    Julian
    5290
    190
    Jack
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    Jade
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    192
    Dominique
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    Susan
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    Carol
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    sally
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    Sandra
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    197
    aidan
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    David
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    199
    Phillip
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    200
    John
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    Read the book that started the campaign

    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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    If you have any queries about Samuel Pearse VC MM, please email info@samuelpearsevc.com.au