article_snippet: Eric Lomax was one of 60,000 Allied prisoners-of-war made to build the Burma Railway under horrific conditions and Eric Lomax autobiography about Eric Lomax own ordeal was turned into the 2013 film The Railway Man, starring Colin Firth.
article_snippet: Eric Lomax worked on the Death Railway in Burma under horrific conditions and Eric Lomax autobiography about the ordeal was turned into the 2013 film The Railway Man, starring Colin Firth.
article_snippet: Colin Firth played Patti Lomax in the 2013 film The Railway Man.
highlights_snippet: Eric Lomax was the Scots Second World War army officer who became known as The Railway Man .
  