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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.
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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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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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.
He was 32 and his wife of six months, Maree Cotter, was pregnant with their child. Ken Hall said that Damien was “a good cameraman – but there were lots of good cameramen on both sides of WWII. Damien’s great gift was knowing what to shoot and to look for the human interest angle.
Damien Parer the ace Australian news reel cameraman was killed by Japanese machinegun fire while filming an American combat advance at Peleliu, in the Palau group of islands north of New Guinea on 17 September 1944. He was 33. His wife survived him, with their son born the following year.
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Damien Parer is one of Australia’s most famous war photographers. He was the first official Australian photographer of the Second World War. Working for the Department of Information (DOI), Parer sailed to the Middle East with the first contingent of the Second AIF in January 1940.
