Informal portrait of Damien Parer about to embark on the transport ship Empress of Japan. Parer ...

Accession Number 000401
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white
Physical description Black & white
Maker Cranstone, Edward Lefevre (Ted)
Place made Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made 12 January 1940
Conflict Second World War, 1939-1945
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

Informal portrait of Damien Parer about to embark on the transport ship Empress of Japan. Parer was an official military photographer and cameraman with the Department of Information Film Unit. He served in the Middle East, Greece and the South-West Pacific from 1940 until his resignation in August 1943 to join the staff of Paramount Pictures Film Services. He was killed on Peleliu Island 17 September 1944 while filming front line operations with the US Marine Corps.