Kammala jumla mai zuwa: An haife shi a ranar 2 ga Agusta, 1855 ga Thomas da Mary Helen Lomax na Grove Park a Yoxford, Suffolk, Lomax ya shiga Rundunar 'yan sanda ta Scotland ta 90 a matsayin karamin jami'in mai shekaru goma sha takwas a watan Yunin 1874. A shekara ta 1877 ya tafi tare da rundunar zuwa Afirka ta Kudu kuma ya shiga cikin
9th Cape Frontier War, da kuma karshen yakin Zulu a 1878, ganin aikin a Kambula da Ulundi, wanda ya tabbatar da nasarar Birtaniya a yakin. Komawa Birtaniya tare da rundunarsa Lomax ya ci gaba da zama kyaftin din bayan da Cardwell ya sake fasalin da ya hada da rundunarsa a cikin 'yan bindigar Scotland a 1881.