And, there are close Upper Hunter connections to this battle as members of the Haydon family from Bloomfield, Blandford, were enlisted as Light Horseman and Guy Haydon famously rode his horse, Midnight, at the Charge.

Publisher Tom Thompson has produced a book celebrating that event, called To Beersheba 1917- and it contains 100 previously unpublished photographs from the Haydon family archive at Bloomfield, along with text from Guy Haydon’s memoir, as well as excerpts from Ion Idriess’ diaries.

Mr Thompson has also published a new edition of Ion Idriess’ book, The Desert Column, a tome complied from Idriess’ diaries, as he served at Gallipoli and later in Egypt and Palestine. 

Guy Haydon and Midnight will feature on the cover.

Appropriately, these editions will be launched at the Scone Literary Festival on Remembrance Day, November 11, and all are welcome to attend the event and to observe the minute’s silence.

If you want to attend come to this launch, as well as be involved in many of the wonderful sessions, then weekend package tickets are selling fast.

So, check the program to see the great line-up of guests including the likes of Peter FitzSimons, Phillip Adams, Don Watson and Rosalie Ham (The Dressmaker). 

The festival will take place from Friday, November 10, to Sunday, November 12.

Go to www.sconewritersfestival.com.au and click on the 'Book Tickets' button on the website to secure your tickets.