In the December edition of Quadrant (“The Photograph of the Charge at Beersheba”) Neil McDonald, assisted by Ian Jones, took issue with the views I expressed in a lecture at the Australian War Memorial regarding a controversial photograph which purportedly shows the 4th Light Horse Regiment charging in battle at Beersheba in 1917. Or more accurately, they seem to have taken issue with what they thought I said, based on the press report which appeared in the Weekend Australian the day after the lecture. McDonald’s piece admonishes me for not debating the issues and for perpetuating “dogmatic assertion” using little…