Education
Harrow School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Harrow School; Royal Military College, Sandhurst.
Alexander was trained at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst and commissioned as a into the Royal Field Artillery as a second lieutenant on 27 July 1889. He was promoted to lieutenant on 27 July 1892, and to captain on 26 December 1899. On 24 August 1914, during the action of Elouges, Belgium, when the flank guard was attacked by a German corps, Alexander handled his battery against overwhelming odds with such conspicuous success that all his guns were saved notwithstanding that they had to be withdrawn by hand by himself and volunteers led by a Captain (Francis Octavus Grenfell) of the 9th Lancers.
This enabled the retirement of the 5th Division to be carried out without serious loss.
Subsequently, Major Alexander rescued a wounded man under heavy fire. His medal group is on display at the Ashcroft Gallery in the Imperial War Museum, London.
He has a headstone in Putney Vale Cemetery.