 His act of defiance was later celebrated in "The Private of the Buffs", a poem by Sir Francis Hastings Doyle.The poem refers to Moyse as a newly recruited young Kentish farmboy but he was, in fact, a veteran middle-aged Irishman who had recently been broken in rank.However, the poem was written on the strength of newspaper reports, and it is likely that Doyle was unaware of the discrepancies.