Damien Peter Parer ACS Hall of Fame award certificate and Elizabeth Parer wedding ring

MLMSS 11657/Box 1X
R 2373

fonds

1944, 2019

Textual Records, Objects

9661487

0.43 metres of textual material (1 outsize box)
1 wedding ring - 2 cm in diameter

Damien Peter Parer (1912-1944) was a photographer and cameraman with the Commonwealth Department of Information during World War II. Parer was one of Australia's most well-known combat cameramen, and was cinematographer for Australia's first Oscar-winning film,'Kokoda Front Line!'. From 1940 until he was killed in action in 1944, he photographed the campaigns in the Middle East and New Guinea.

Elizabeth Marie Cotter was born in Sydney on 17 April 1914. She married Damien Parer on 23 March 1944 at St Mary's Catholic Church, North Sydney. Their son Damien Robert Parer was born the following year.

References:
Riley, Margot. 'Shooting the war: Australia's first Oscar'. State Library of New South Wales. Accessed 13 October 2022. https://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/shooting-war-australias-first-oscar
Library acquisition file

By descent from Damien Peter Parer and Elizabeth Parer (née Cotter) to Damien Robert Parer.

1. Australian Cinematographers Society (ACS) 'Hall of Fame' award for Damien Peter Parer, 18 May 2019 . Accompanied by winner's list and photocopy of letter from ACS to Damien Robert Parer relating to his father's induction into the Hall of Fame. (MLMSS 11657/Box 1X)

2. Elizabeth Parer's gold wedding ring. (R 2373)

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