The Anzac Day parade in New Zealand when I was a kid had the veterans marching in order of the wars they'd fought in, oldest war first. The leaders were veterans of the Boer War.

I once saw a newspaper clipping with a photo of my mother's father and a few other men from his family. The caption said they'd worked at the same factory (Siemens in Woolwich) for 200 years between them.

I attended a few courses taught (long after his retirement) by H.G. Forder at Auckland University.

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Biographies/Forder.html

One of them was on general relativity. Forder was already teaching and researching mathematics when Einstein first published about the theory. It made the course fairly difficult because Forder didn't see much point in modernizing Einstein's way of doing it, he thought it was just fine the way it was. He used to end each lecture saying "If I'm still alive next week, we'll cover..."