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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    Rosemary
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    627
    John
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    628
    Pam
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    629
    Beverly
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    630
    Amanda
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    631
    Nicole
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    632
    Haylee
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    633
    Shylee
    4503
    634
    Wendy
    5085
    635
    Alysha
    5109
    636
    Paul
    5109
    637
    Janet
    5109
    638
    Amity
    5109
    639
    Aaron
    5083
    640
    Louise
    2617
    641
    Alan
    3427
    642
    Kirsty
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    643
    Kirsty
    3342
    644
    Stuart
    3500
    645
    Glenis
    2648
    646
    Rachael
    5345
    647
    Lisa
    3216
    648
    Jean
    3500
    649
    Joan
    3500
    650
    Anne
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    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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