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--- Captain, The Prince Constort's Own Rifle Brigade. Killed in Action.
--- "Dundee Evening Telegraph" 19 May 1915, page 4, column 1:
CAPTAIN KENNEDY, RIFLE BRIGADE
Captain Paul Adrian Kennedy, 4th Battalion Rifle Brigade (killed in action on May 9 at Aubers Ridge), was born in 1886. Captain Kennedy belonged to the family of the Marquis of Ailsa. He was the third son of the late Sir John Gordon Kennedy, K.C.M.G., British Minister to Roumania, and of Lady Kennedy (now of 56 Cranley Gardens, London). She was Evelyn Bootle Wilbraham, niece of the first Earl of Lathom, and sister of the Dowager Countess of Crawford and Balcarres. Captain Kennedy was wounded last September, and his eldest brother was killed in action inn August. Sir John Kennedy's grandfather was the third son of the eleventh Earl of Cassillis and the brother of the twelfth Earl, who was created Marquis of Ailsa. Captain Kennedy was the cousin of the present and 27th Earl of Crawford.
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