Charles Clements, 5th Earl of Leitrim
During the Home Rule Crisis, he commanded the Ulster Volunteers in County Donegal and smuggled arms into the country for their use.[1] The Earl had no children by either of his two marriages; his only heir, his brother Francis, went to America under an assumed name, disappeared, and was pronounced dead in 1917.[3] Following the outbreak of the Second Boer War in late 1899, he volunteered for active service in the Imperial Yeomanry,[4] where he was commissioned a lieutenant on 3 March 1900,[5] leaving Liverpool for South Africa on the SS Cymric later the same month.[8] He was promoted lieutenant in the 9th Lancers on 5 July 1901,[9][10] but returned to the United Kingdom when the war was drawing to a close in March 1902,[11] and resigned his commission on 21 June 1902.[15] During World War I, Leitrim was commissioned a major in the 11th Service Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers[16] but resigned due to ill health on 10 January 1917.