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
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Robin
2118
52
Jen
3500
53
Brett
2769
54
Francine
3977
55
Eileen Margaret
3396
56
Barry Charles
3396
57
Mackenzie
6280
58
Mick
3498
59
Kevin
3505
60
richard
2118
61
margaret
2118
62
Julie
3500
63
Nikiesha
3500
64
Belinda
5640
65
Ian
3155
66
Gaye
3505
67
Leslie Ronald
3505
68
Marcel
35560
69
Kevin
-1
70
Susan
318
71
Peter
3018
72
Lisa
3505
73
Stephen
3216
74
Steve
3216
75
Kerri
7109
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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