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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.
Veteran film producer Damien Parer has written a memoir that reveals how he was affected by being the son of the celebrated World War II cameraman renowned for his images of wounded Diggers on the ...
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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Damien Parer was one of Australia's best-known war correspondents and camera operators. During World War II, Parer made the Oscar-winning documentary, Kokoda! Front Line.
Even sixty years after his death Damien Parer remains one of Australia's most well-known combat cameramen. He was born on 1 August 1912 at Malvern in Melbourne but was educated largely in Bathurst, at Saint Stanislaus School.
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- Mr, War Correspondent and Photographer
- Australia: Victoria, Melbourne, Malvern
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When Damien Parer was born in 1912, his father ran the King Island Hotel and young Damien spent his early childhood playing in the windswept tussocks of the isolated Bass Strait island with his five older brothers and his sister.
Learn about Damien Parer, one of Australia's most famous war photographers and the first official photographer of the Second World War. See his images and films of the Middle East, New Guinea and the Pacific.
