A national campaign is calling for recognition for thousands of stillborn babies buried in unmarked communal graves.
John Murphy, from Calne in Wiltshire, discovered his stillborn baby sister had been laid to rest along with five other stillborn children in an unmarked grave in Reading in 1960.
He said his sister is "one of untold thousands of babies" buried with no markers in cemeteries across the UK and wants "modest" memorials erected to show "they did indeed exist" and "were loved".
Chippenham MP Sarah Gibson, who has taken up the campaign, said the health secretary has "recognised that this is an issue - that needs to be addressed".
Wes Streeting has now offered to meet families to see what can be done.
Mr Murphy said he and his four brothers always knew the "story" of their stillborn baby sister, who was born 18 months after him in May 1960.
"We always knew her as the baby, our sister, who we never got to meet," he said.
"She didn't have a name. Children weren't christened who were stillborn, they didn't have names. She was just known as baby Murphy.
"But I'm sure [my parents] must have thought about my sister from time to time because she was part of our story."
Despite his mother carrying the "loss of her daughter all her life", Mr Murphy it was only as he got older and became a grandparent that he decided to talk to his parents about his sister.
"Mum and Dad had no idea where their daughter was buried, they were never told. She was taken from the hospital and buried," he said.
"[My father] said the nurse came out with a bundle wrapped in a blanket and just held the baby.
“He knew it was the baby but he never saw her and the nurse just said: ‘I’m awfully sorry Mr Murphy, but there’ll be another one next year’ and she walked away.
“They were her parents but they didn’t know where she was and no one told them.”
Just a few years before his parents died, Mr Murphy began the search and discovered his sister “baby Murphy” was buried in a “patch of grass devoid of any markings” at Henley Road Cemetery in Reading.
“It was very poignant. Where my sister is buried you can see these undulations all over the ground,” he said
“There are hundreds of stillborn children buried out there, hundreds of them, my sister’s just one.
“My Dad wanted to put a marker down and leave something but it’s not possible in a public area like that.”
Now Mr Murphy is calling for simple memorials to be erected at cemeteries across the country to “recognise those children”.
“To me it would mean that my sister and thousands of other children are more than just a piece of grass in a graveyard,” he said.
“So let’s just have a small unfussy monument out there that says these children were loved, they were cared for, and they are part of every family’s history.”
Chippenham MP Sarah Gibson said Freedom of Information requests have revealed that more than 89,000 stillborn babies buried before the late 1990s were often placed in shared plots without ceremony, record, or memorial.
She is now calling on the government to identify burial records, install memorials, and "give families a place to remember their loved ones".
The heath secretary has also agreed to "listen to what family groups are saying" and "take a good look at the campaign".
"I feel strongly that is a national tragedy that has remained hidden for far too long," she said.
"Thousands have been denied the dignity of mourning, the right to say goodbye, and in many cases, even the knowledge of where their loved one was laid to rest.
"I am relieved that the government has said it will finally listen and do right by the families who have shouldered this injustice."