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"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.
2nd Lieutenant Eric Fletcher Waters. Eric Fletcher Waters was born in County Durham in 1913, the son of a coal miner and Labour party activist. He studied in Bishop Auckland, County Durham, before winning a scholarship that gave him the chance to attend the University. His wife, Mary, gave him two sons, John, who later became a taxi driver, and ...
13 de jul. de 2016 · El documento que describía los detalles de la muerte de Eric Fletcher Waters, padre de Roger, fue enviado a su agente William Morris Endeavor de Los Angeles. Un documento que detallaba en que causas falleció Eric según el reporte de la época del comandante del octavo batallón de fusileros reales y teniente coronel, J Oliver ...
11 de oct. de 2013 · Roger Waters, the founder of Pink Floyd, visited the battlefield where his father Eric Fletcher Waters was killed in 1944 at Anzio, Italy. Documents unearthed at the National Archives paint a clear picture of the final 24 hours of his father's life and the events leading up to his death. The documents also reveal how his father's name is on a memorial at Cassino, but his remains were never found.
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. [2] His father, the son of a coal miner and Labour Party activist, was a schoolteacher, a devout Christian, and a Communist Party member.
11 de oct. de 2013 · Roger Waters has finally found out the truth about how his father died.The Pink Floyd musician's parent, Lieutenant Eric Fletcher Waters, died in action during the Second World War at the...
27 de abr. de 2020 · ¿Quién fue Eric Fletcher Waters? Hijo de un minero del condado de Durham, era maestro de escuela cristiano, pacifista y miembro del Partido Comunista de Gran Bretaña. En 1939, previo a la guerra, fue declarado objetor de conciencia por lo que condujo una ambulancia durante los bombardeos nazi sobre el Reino Unido.