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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    Postcode
    651
    Naomi
    3505
    652
    Syd
    3500
    653
    Kellie
    3500
    654
    Cathy
    3500
    655
    Vicki
    2738
    656
    Shannan
    3501
    657
    Leanne
    3501
    658
    Kaz
    3498
    659
    Kaz
    3498
    660
    Vanessa
    2648
    661
    Jennie
    6171
    662
    Tara
    3496
    663
    Isabella
    3496
    664
    Anne
    3644
    665
    Adam
    3496
    666
    Deborah
    3505
    667
    Maree
    3497
    668
    Wendy
    3500
    669
    Neil
    3500
    670
    Lynette
    3500
    671
    Tenille
    3496
    672
    Georgie
    3500
    673
    AnnaMarie
    3637
    674
    Jude
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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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