MILDURA RSL has backed a push for the repatriation and reburial of the remains of the city's most highly decorated World War I soldier.

Samuel Pearse was just 17 when he left to fight in the great War and survived battles at Gallipoli and the Somme before being killed in action in northern Russia on August 29, 1919.

Sergeant Pearse was awarded the Military Medal for bravery after being wounded t...