Raymond John Paul Parer was an Australian aviator.
Ray Parer & John McIntosh in front of their battered Airco de Havilland DH.9 on 31 August 1920 at Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne (Australia's Federal capital at the time) after handing a bottle of Peter Dawson whisky, that had travelled with them from England to Melbourne, to Australian Prime Minister Billy Hughes.
The Airco de Havilland DH.9 Parer and McIntosh flew from the UK to Australia on display at the Australian War Memorial in 2018
1919 England to Australia flight
In 1919 the Australian government offered a prize of £A10,000 for the first Australians in a British aircraft to fly from Great Britain to Australia. Of the six entries that started the race, the winners were pilot Ross Smith, his brother Keith Smith as co-pilot, and mechanics James Bennett and Wally Shiers, in a modified Vickers Vimy bomber.
First Flight from England to Australia by Australians Monument in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
The winning Vickers Vimy, 1919