By David Paul
ERIC Lomax’s screams of pain as he was tortured still haunt those who were caged alongside him 70 years ago in a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp.
Tomorrow, in a small parish church, his family and friends will gather to pay their last respects to an extraordinary man who died aged 93, just months before his harrowing story is about to hit the nation’s cinema screens.
Oscar-winning actor Colin Firth is to star as Eric in The Railway Man.
Over the past year Colin has made two secret trips to Berwick-upon-Tweed in Northumberland to get to know Eric, one of the most extraordinary characters to emerge from the Second World War. He endured barbaric treatment as one of thousands of Allied servicemen used as slave labour to build the Death Railway between Thailand and Burma.
Eric was among six men who were tortured for a week. Two were murdered and their bodies thrown into a latrine trench.
Eric had both arms broken and he was waterboarded.
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