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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First Name
Postcode
476
Anthony
3976
477
Melissa
5091
478
Wendy
5171
479
Hayden
5109
480
Alysha
5409
481
Alysha
5109
482
lynne
5074
483
Neville
5074
484
David
3215
485
Mick
3180
486
Helen
3180
487
Emma
5126
488
Jean-Pierre
3192
489
Geoffrey
5211
490
Wal
5013
491
Janiece
2213
492
Kate
5098
493
Peter
3133
494
Pandora
2026
495
David
5211
496
Michael
48317
497
Philip
3195
498
Graham
3338
499
Lorraine
3429
500
Rebecca
5116
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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