Educated at the Royal Military College , Sandhurst , Nelson was commissioned into the 40th Regiment of Foot as an ensign in 1835 . He served in Kandahar and in Afghanistan in 1841 and 1842 and took part in the Battle of Hyderabad in 1843 during the Conquest of Sindh . He was appointed Deputy Assistant Adjutant-General at Portsmouth in 1854 and subsequently became brigade major there before being made Deputy Adjutant-General in Jamaica in 1864 . He was responsible for putting down the Morant Bay rebellion there , ordering the trial of George Gordon who was subsequently hanged in 1865 . He went on to be Assistant Adjutant-General for Cork district in 1867 and Adjutant-General in Gibraltar in 1873 . He became Lieutenant Governor of Guernsey in 1879
Morant Bay rebellion
Morant Bay rebellion
Alexander Nelson (British Army officer)