'Damien Peter Parer\r'

'Damien Peter parer (1 imposing 1912 †17 September 1944) was an Australian war photographer. He became storied for his war photography of the Second human race War, and was killed by Japanese machinegun fire at Peleliu, Palau. He espouse Elizabeth Marie Cotter on 23 March 1944, and his son, manufacturing business Damien Parer, was born posthumously. He was also the uncle of Australian political leader Warwick Parer and film-maker David Parer.\r\nHe was cinematographer for Australias kickoff Oscar kind film, Kokoda mien Line, an edition of the weekly newsreel, Cinesound Review which was produced by Ken Hall. Damien Parer was born at Malvern in Melbourne, the tenth child of Teresa and John Arthur Parer, a hotel coach-and-four on King Island, Tasmania. In 1923, he and his brother, Adrian, were displace as boarders to St Stanislaus College in Bathurst and St. Kevins College, Melbourne . He joined the schools television camera club, and decided that he wanted to be a phot ographer, rather than a priest.\r\nHowever, finding a course as a photographer in depression-era Australia be difficult, and so he resumed his education at St Kevins in east Melbourne. While at this school he won a prize in a photographic competition run by the Melbourne newspaper, the Argus, and employ the money to buy a Graflex camera utilise by professionals. Parer obtained an apprenticeship with Arthur Dickinson. He said after that he learnt most about photography from Dickinson and exclusive Dupain.\r\nHe finished his apprenticeship in 1933 and, manytime later, obtained fix with the director, Charles Chauvel, on the film Heritage, where he met and became friends with another up and coming filmmaker of the time, John Heyer. At the purpose of that film, and with the help of Chauvel, he obtained work in Sydney, and so moved there in 1935. By World War II, Parer was experienced at photography and motion pictures, and was appointed as official characterisation photographer to the Australian Imperial Force (AIF).\r\nHis first war footage was taken on HMAS Sydney after it had drop down the Italian cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni. Soon after, he was on board HMS Ladybird while it was bombarding the sea port of Bardia in Libya. His first experience at close lodge was during a troop advance at Derna. Parer filmed in Greece and in Syria, covering the bodily function from aircraft, the deck of a ship and on the territory with the infantry. After Syria he travelled to Tobruk in August 1941 before covering the fighting in the horse opera desert.\r\nBy mid-1942 Parer was in New guinea ready to cover the fighting against the Japanese. During this phase of the war, he filmed some of his most famous sequences, some at Salamaua and, most notably, those used in Kokoda Front Line. This documentary won its producer, Ken G. Hall, an Academy accolade for documentary film-making. Parer was killed by Japanese gunshot while filming a United States nautical advance in P eleliu on the island of Palau.\r\n'