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
526
Rohan
3793
527
Br6
6036
528
Jeanette
3220
529
Courtney
2380
530
Mark
2799
531
John
4014
532
Gary
2440
533
Lulu
2096
534
Douglas
4814
535
Graham
4670
536
Debbie
2326
537
Chris
3061
538
Cheryl
5290
539
Grant
5161
540
Ruth
5253
541
Jodie
3192
542
Geoff
5155
543
John
4215
544
Zoe
5159
545
Peter
2581
546
Lynnette
4655
547
Kerry
5018
548
Graham
5043
549
Kym and Judy
5351
550
John
4718
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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