Description
Nile, Egypt (?). c.1941. Damien Parer, an official Australian war correspondent, photographer and film cameraman with the Department of Information, sits in a boat. Parer served in the Middle East, Greece and the South-West Pacific from 1940 until his resignation in May 1943. He was killed on 17 September 1944 while filming front line operations with the US Marine Corps on Peleliu Island. (Original nitrate negative held in AWM Archive Store)
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Accession Number
P02126.015
Photographer
Corporal Robert J Bevir
Classification
Photograph
Physical Description
Base: acetate
Colour: Black & white
Format: 35mm
Support: nitrate
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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