just before the shells struck, and survived with minor injuries; however, Lomax was seriously wounded and medically evacuated back to England. Major-General David Henderson stepping in to assume command of the 1st Division. Death On arrival back in England Lomax was treated in a nursing home in London, where he received palliative care for the next five months before dying of his wounds in his 60th year on the 10 April 1915. His body was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium, and his ashes were buried at Aldershot Military Cemetery, later to be joined by his wife's under a private headstone. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle later wrote that Lomax's early death in the war had deprived the British High Command of a talented General, which "was a brain injury to the Army and a desperately serious one." Notes Bibliography 1855 births 1915 deaths Military personnel from Suffolk British Army lieutenant generals Cameronians officers British Army personnel of the Anglo-Zulu War British Army generals of World War I British military personnel killed in World War I Burials at Aldershot Military Cemetery British military personnel of the 9th Cape Frontier War