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Damien Peter Parer (1 August 1912 – 17 September 1944) was an Australian war photographer. He became famous for his war photography of the Second World War, and was killed by Japanese machine-gun fire at Peleliu, Palau.
Damien Peter Parer (1912-1944), war photographer and cameraman, was born on 1 August 1912 at Malvern, Melbourne, youngest of eight children of John Arthur Parer, an hotelkeeper from Spain, and his Victorian-born wife Teresa, née Carolin.
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He married Elizabeth Marie Cotter during a period of leave on 23 March 1944 at St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney. Parer returned to work and was killed by a burst of Japanese machine gun fire on Peleliu Island on 17 September 1944 while filming front line operations with the US Marine Corps.
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Born on August 1st, 1912, in Malvern, Melbourne, Damien Peter Parer was a war photographer and cameraman. He was the youngest of eight children from John Arthur Parer, a hotelkeeper from Spain, and his wife Teresa, who was born in Victoria.
His early assignments involved filming further air raids over New Guinea. On 23 March 1944 during a period of leave, Parer, a deeply religious man, married Marie Cotter in Sydney. Their union was a brief one. Parer returned to action, leaving the war in New Guinea behind to accompany the United States Marines.
Damien Parer. 1912 - 1944 | VIC | Cameraman, photographer. Parer was one of Australia’s best-known combat cameramen. As official movie photographer for the AIF, he decided early to film from as close to the action as possible.
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Damien Parer (1912–1944), photographer and filmmaker, became friends with Max Dupain in the 1930s, often taking photographs with him on excursions to the beach and bush. In 1933 Parer started working with the feature film director Charles Chauvel, for whom his projects included Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940).
