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Parade for May Day (International Workers’ Day) in Sydney in 1944. Front left: Wollongong steelworker Jim McNeill in a slouch hat and second Australian Imperial Force uniform. Photograph: Illawarra Museum

This Remembrance Day consider a photograph and the story it holds about Australians whose war service has largely been deliberately overlooked or forgotten by the tellers of this country’s martial history.

Held by the Illawarra Museum in Wollongong, the photograph was taken during a parade for May Day (International Workers’ Day) in Sydney in 1944. It has not been previously published.