Description
Nile, Egypt (?). c.1941. Damien Parer (left), an official Australian war correspondent, photographer and film cameraman, on the gangplank about to board a boat. Parer served in the Middle East, Greece and the South-West Pacific until his resignation in August 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
P02126.016
Photographer
Corporal Robert J Bevir
Classification
Photograph
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Support: nitrate
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain
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