Complex sentence: Given the rank of lieutenant-colonel when placed on half-pay in 1901, he retired from the army in 1902 to become governor of St Helena, where he revived capital punishment.
Split into simpler sentences: Given the rank of lieutenant-colonel when placed on half-pay in 1901, he retired from the army in 1902. After retiring from the army he was appointed governor of St Helena, where he revived capital punishment.