• Title
  Ray Parer at controls of aeroplane, 1917 / by Algernon Darge.
• Creator
  Darge Photographic Co.
• Call number
  P1/1295
  
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  Feb-May 1917
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  10006
• Issue Copy
  Digitised
• Physical Description
  1 photographic print - gelatin silver, postcard - 8.5 x 13.5 cm
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Ray Parer served in the Australian Flying Corps during World War I. In 1919 he and John McIntosh entered the Australian Government's air race from England to Australia. However before they were ready to leave the race had been won by Ross and Keith Smith. Nevertheless on 8 Jan. 1920 they still set out and after many amazing adventures finally arrived in Darwin 208 days later.
• Copying Conditions
  Out of copyright: Created before 1955
• General note
  
  Transferred from P1/Parer, Ray, 1917 (BM)
  
  This is a slightly different and better image than that in SPF (P1/P).
  Digital order no:a4359095
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  Ray Parer Taken in Camp before he left here - on reverse of photograph.
• Attributions / conjectures
  
  Name of photographer supplied by the Curator of Photographs.
• Name
  Parer, Raymond J.P. (Raymond John Paul), 1894-1967
  
• Topic
  aeroplanes
  aviators
  Graham-White Box Kite (aeroplanes)
  biplanes
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1641368

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