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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First Name
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
2717
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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