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Shindler, who also fought at Anzio and now lives in Italy, tracked down the official records of the battle and learned that Eric Fletcher Waters was killed in a ditch at 11:30AM when his company.
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Second Lieutenant ERIC FLETCHER WATERS Service Number: 292975 Regiment & Unit/Ship Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) 8th Bn. Date of Death Died 18 February 1944 Age 29 years old Buried or commemorated at CASSINO MEMORIAL Panel 5. Italy Country of Service United Kingdom
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He was an officer in Z Company and fell in battle on February 18, 1944. Lt Waters was killed at Aprilla in the first wave of fighting as the Allies attempted to secure the beach head at Anzio, south of Rome. His name is on a memorial at the nearby Commonwealth War Graves Cemetery at Cassino but his remains were never found.
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Detective work by a British war veteran has located the exact spot where the father of Roger Waters was killed in Italy during the Second World War. Waters was just five months old when his.
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5. The Final Cut was dedicated to Waters' late father Eric Fletcher Waters who was a second lieutenant of the Royal Fusiliers, who perished during the ill-fated Anzio campaign in Italy in the early part of 1944. Eric was a devout Christian and Communist Party member who had been a conscientious objector. His experiences driving an ambulance during the Blitz changed his opinions and he joined.
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A war diary belonging to Pink Floyd star Roger Waters' father has been uncovered by a fellow soldier (pictured) the Waters family while father Eric was serving in the Royal Fusiliers
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Cassino Cassino Memorial 2nd Lt Eric Fletcher Waters Maintained by: Michelle Originally Created by: War Graves Added: 5 Aug 2010 Find a Grave Memorial ID: 55981847 Sponsored by Mark Orey Source citation He was born in 1913 in Surrey, England. During World War II, he was an officer of the 8th Royal Fusiliers.
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" When the Tigers Broke Free " is a Pink Floyd song by Roger Waters, [1] [2] describing the death of his father, Eric Fletcher Waters, on 18 February 1944, during the Battle of Anzio during the Italian Campaign of the Second World War. [3] Writing and recording The song was originally titled "Anzio, 1944".
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Private User child Mary Elizabeth Waters mother Courtesy of https://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/11800 George Henry Waters father About Eric Fletcher Waters Eric Waters died in Italy while serving as a 2nd Lieutenant with the Royal Fusilliers. He was originally a conscientious objector driving ambulances during the Blitz. view all
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2099066 View record on CWGC Second Lieutenant Eric Fletcher Waters was born in County Durham in 1914. He and his wife Mary had two sons: John, who later became a taxi driver, and Roger, who became one of the founding members of the rock group Pink Floyd.
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4.7K 595K views 9 years ago Aveva solo cinque mesi Roger Waters quando perse il padre. Eric Fletcher Waters scomparve in una delle battaglie più cruente della seconda guerra mondiale dopo lo.
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April 14, 1983 This may be art rock's crowning masterpiece, but it is also something more. With The Final Cut, Pink Floyd caps its career in classic form, and leader Roger Waters — for whom the.
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Eric Fletcher Waters died in 1944 while serving as a second lieutenant with the Royal Fusiliers as they advanced through Italy. Earlier this year, his son Roger made an emotional journey to visit the battlefield where his father was killed along with thousands of other Allied troops.
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The Pink Floyd musician's parent, Lieutenant Eric Fletcher Waters, died in action during the Second World War at the battle of Anzio in Italy, when his son was just five months old.
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When Eric Fletcher Waters was born in October 1914, in Copley, Durham, England, United Kingdom, his father, George Henry Waters, was 18 and his mother, Mary E Fletcher, was 23. He had at least 1 son with Mary Duncan Whyte. He died on 18 February 1944, in Anzio, Roma, Lazio, Italy, at the age of 29, and was buried in Cassino, Frosinone, Lazio.
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George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English musician and singer-songwriter. In 1965, he co-founded the rock band Pink Floyd as the bassist. Following the departure of the songwriter, Syd Barrett, in 1968, Waters became Pink Floyd's lyricist, co-lead vocalist and conceptual leader until his departure in 1985.