Informal portrait of Damien Parer and Elizabeth Marie Cotter Accession Number: 044861

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Portrait of official military photographer and cameraman Damien Parer and Elizabeth Marie Cotter seated at a piano. They later married on 23 March 1944. Parer 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 on 17 September 1944 while filming front line operations with the US Marine Corps.

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Accession Number
044861
Photographer
Unknown
Classification
Photograph
Object Type
Black & white - Print silver gelatin
Physical Description
Colour: Black & white
Measurement
Overall: 13.5 cm x 8.3 cm
Date Made
November 1941
Whole/Part
Whole
Item Count
1
Credit Line
Donor R. Gray
Copyright
Copyright expired - public domain

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