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
426
Angela
5000
427
Mark
5000
428
Fergus
5000
429
William
2000
430
Margaret
2000
431
Roderick
2152
432
Ray
2444
433
Andrew
2229
434
Ian
2906
435
James
2088
436
Derek
2537
437
Robert Phillip
2026
438
Martin
2452
439
Warren
2800
440
Peter
2463
441
Robyn
4032
442
Christine
2251
443
Loryn
2261
444
Wendy
5091
445
Wendy
5091
446
Ashlee
5126
447
Jenni
5125
448
Elaine
5125
449
Jenny
3500
450
Christine
5050
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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