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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Petition #
First Name
Postcode
451
Tom
5126
452
Colleen
5050
453
Christopher
4300
454
Jade
5069
455
Meaghan
5041
456
Oisin
5159
457
Daryl
5050
458
Bernard
5050
459
Vicki
3564
460
C
3146
461
John
5069
462
Wayne
6109
463
Ash
2732
464
Lorraine
3806
465
Nigel
3806
466
Vanessa
5345
467
Tricia
3620
468
Katie
3621
469
Sharlene
3551
470
Jeanne (Janet)
5113
471
Kurtis
9
472
Isabelle
2710
473
Bradley
2800
474
Booral
2795
475
Louise
2800
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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