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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:
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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?"