Charles Kennedy, 5th Marquess of Ailsa

Charles Kennedy, 5th Marquess of Ailsa (10 April 1875 but resigned his commission on 5 May. During the Second Boer War, he fought as a captain in an Australian regiment, the Prince of Wales' Light Horse, and received the Queen's South Africa Medal with three clasps.

After the Boer War, Kennedy moved to the United States, living in Wyoming through about 1910, and then in Nevada, Missouri and Davenport, Iowa. In November 1914, on the outbreak of World War I, he returned to Great Britain and joined the Ayrshire Yeomanry in January 1915. He was passed as "unfit for overseas service" and was appointed an area gas officer in late 1916. Kennedy was briefly posted to France as a gas instructor with the 18th (Eastern) Division in 1918.

On 15 December 1925, he married Constance Barbara Clarke, widow of Sir John Baird. She died in 1931.