15 Facts About Eric Lomax

Eric Sutherland Lomax was a British Army officer who was sent to a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in 1942.

Eric Lomax left the Royal High School, Edinburgh, aged 16, after entering a civil service competition and obtaining employment at the Post Office.

In 1939, aged 20, Eric Lomax joined the Royal Corps of Signals before World War II broke out.

Eric Lomax was a Royal Signals officer attached to the 5th Field Regiment, Royal Artillery.

Eric Lomax was then taken to Kanchanaburi, Thailand and forced to build the Burma Railway.

Eric Lomax was transferred to Outram Road Prison in Singapore for the remainder of the war.

Eric Lomax was awarded the Efficiency Medal in 1949 and was granted the honorary rank of captain.

Unable to adjust to civilian life, Eric Lomax joined the Colonial Service and was posted to the Gold Coast until 1955.

Eric Lomax was the first patient of the Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture.

Eric Lomax married his first wife Agnes on 20 November 1945, just three weeks after being liberated.

In 1980, Eric Lomax met British-born Canadian nurse Patricia "Patti" Wallace who was 17 years his junior.

Eric Lomax moved from Canada to the United Kingdom in 1982.

Eric Lomax left Nan several months later and married Patti in 1983.

Eric Lomax's story was made into the BBC television drama Prisoners in Time in 1995, starring John Hurt as Eric Lomax, Randall Duk Kim as Nagase, and Rowena Cooper as Patti.

Eric Lomax was a council member of The Freedom Association.