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
576
Brad
4031
577
Rania
2145
578
David
4221
579
John
3806
580
Peter
2329
581
Ita
2329
582
Michael
2069
583
Ian
2795
584
Michael
2768
585
Ron
4562
586
Neil
3869
587
Scott
2580
588
Jack
2580
589
Henry
3029
590
shauna
2227
591
Peter
2257
592
Daniel John
2222
593
Kenneth
2222
594
GREG
2062
595
Rocky
2107
596
Rhonda
4127
597
Lynne
2226
598
Ricardo
4507
599
JULIAN
2217
600
Bob
4659
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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