000401

000401

Image copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

ID number
000401
Photographer
Cranstone, Edward 'Ted' L F
Object type
Black & white
Place made
Australia: Victoria, Melbourne
Date made
12 January 1940
Physical description
Black & white
Collection
Photograph
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. (This image supersedes 055057, which was an inferior copy) (Original nitrate negative held in AWM nitrate store).
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