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Treasured tokens of a friendship forged in the horrors of the Burma railway
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mirror.co.ukAfter another day of living hell toiling on the “Death Railway”, Eric Adie and Peter Ramm were herded towards waiting trucks, about to be moved up country.
The two young officers had become the very best of pals after joining the Royal Norfolk Regiment together at the start of the Second World War.
Their friendship deepened when they were shipped to the Far East and taken prisoner during the fall of Singapore. Starved and brutalised by their Japanese captors, they helped each other survive the horrific Burma Railway.
That evening, in August 1943, as the men were being moved to a new jungle camp, Eric helped an exhausted Peter clamber into a truck.
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