Returning the Soldiers to Barracks
November 11, 2018 | A Centennial Tribute
Project Acknowledgments
Andrea Gerrard of the Headstone Project provided invaluable assistance in locating the 3,200 soldier images that made this tribute possible.
Cary Littleford provided the technical expertise and equipment needed to project the images onto Anglesea Barracks.
The Commonwealth Government through Member for Clark Andrew Wilkie found $7,000 in funding to support the project.
Ex-Services Club of Taroona handled fund administration for the tribute.
Anglesea Barracks gave permission for this meaningful use of their historic walls.
The project received coverage from The Mercury and ABC News as part of their centennial World War 1 commemorations.
In mid-2018, almost 100 years after the end of World War 1, Mike conceived a tribute to those soldiers who shipped across the world and never came home.
3,200 Tasmanian World War I soldiers were projected onto the walls of Anglesea Barracks, returning home in light and memory exactly 100 years after the war's end.
It was in part a nod to his grandfather, George, who survived the battle at Gallipoli. To an extent, it was also a nod to his father, John, who served in Australia's Navy at the end of World War 2.
With the enormous help of Andrea Gerrard of the Headstone Project, Mike was able to locate images of some 3,200 WW1 soldiers from Tasmania. Technical brilliance from specialist Cary Littleford enabled the projection of those images onto the exterior walls of Anglesea Barracks, from where many of those same soldiers would have shipped out to the battlefield.
The Vision
THE WORLD ACCORDING TO KERR
THE MAN HIMSELF
THE NOT SO REAL WORLD
THE KERR-LECTION