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:

Please sign our petition
 

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First Name
Postcode
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Geert
8980
252
Stuart
4032
253
Sandra
6210
254
Robert
3055
255
Mark
2615
256
Peter
7011
257
Chris
3658
258
Bruce
4570
259
Joel
5271
260
Sabine
5136
261
Kathleen
5154
262
Sophie
5360
263
Corbin
5372
264
Mark
5360
265
Nicola
5343
266
Tania
5571
267
Jodie
5271
268
Gavin
4714
269
Harry
3566
270
Christopher
5075
271
Cheryl
6233
272
Joshua
5606
273
Aaron
2602
274
Terry
5252
275
shane
5271
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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