On November 2 the Australian carried a report by Patrick Walters headlined “War Memorial photograph not of Light Horse charge”. It was based on a paper by Australian War Memorial historian Dr Jean Bou that was a reply to a double-page spread in the second edition of Ian Jones’s highly regarded A Thousand Miles of Battles: The Saga of the Australian Light Horse in WWI (2007), in which the photograph is treated as genuine. This was not mentioned by Walters, although he does mention Jones, who he describes as a writer and a film producer. Walters omits the fact that…