 In the R. F. Delderfield novel "Long Summer Day" (the first of the "A Horseman Riding By" trilogy), Boer War veteran Paul Craddock buys a farm in 1900 or 1901.The middle-aged estate manager, Rudd, is somewhat embittered at having been one of the soldiers who had failed to rescue the Prince Imperial in 1879.Craddock is aware of the events, because by coincidence he had been born that very day.