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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    Ian
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    202
    Karl
    6168
    203
    Lindsay
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    204
    Adam
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    Brett
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    Sharan
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    Paul
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    Wendy
    2251
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    Ben
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    210
    Greg
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    Keith
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    Stephen
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    Andrew
    2705
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    wayne
    2705
    215
    Michelle
    2540
    216
    Brian
    2705
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    Murray
    6111
    218
    Ross
    2749
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    Jan
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    220
    Leif
    6036
    221
    Marilyn
    2170
    222
    Rohan
    4105
    223
    Jason
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    224
    Toni
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    225
    Dylan
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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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