Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Amụrụ na 2 Ọgọstụ 1855 nye Thomas na Mary Helen Lomax nke Grove Park na Yoxford, Suffolk, Lomax sonyeere Scottish 90th Regiment of Foot dị ka onye ọrụ nta dị afọ iri na asatọ na June 1874. N'afọ 1877, ya na ndị agha ya so gaa Saụt Afrịka ma sonye na
9th Cape Frontier War, na nke ikpeazụ nke Agha Zulu na 1878, na-ahụ ihe na Kambula na Ulundi, nke mere ka ndị Briten merie na mkpọsa ahụ. N'ịlaghachi na Britain na ndị agha ya, e buliri Lomax n'ọkwa onyeisi ndị agha na-esote Cardwell Reforms nke jikọtara ndị agha ya na Scottish Rifles na 1881.