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).
