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Eric Fletcher Waters was a conscientious objector who later joined the British Army as a second lieutenant in the Royal Fusiliers. He was killed in action at Anzio in 1944 and his son Roger, the founder of Pink Floyd, wrote songs inspired by his death.
18 de nov. de 2023 · Eric Fletcher Waters, quien paradójicamente también perdió a su padre en la guerra (la Primera, en su caso), era un profesor de historia de origen humilde, pacifista y comunista que guardaba ...
11 de oct. de 2013 · 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.
"When the Tigers Broke Free" is a Pink Floyd song by Roger Waters. It describes 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.
Waters was born on 6 September 1943, the younger of two boys, to Mary (née Whyte; 1913–2009) and Eric Fletcher Waters (1914–1944), in Great Bookham, Surrey. His father, the son of a coal miner and Labour Party activist, was a schoolteacher, a devout Christian, and a Communist Party member.
13 de nov. de 2013 · 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...
12 de nov. de 2013 · Waters's father, Lieutenant Eric Fletcher Waters – who died when his son was five months old – is central to Pink Floyd's The Wall, in which the disturbed protagonist, Pink, grows up longing...
