Roger Waters Unveils Memorial To Late Father in Italy
Roger Waters has unveiled a memorial in Italy to his late father and other soldiers who were killed in an historic battle during World War Two. The memorial takes the form of a newly-erected white marble obelisk in the town of Aprilia south of Rome. At 11:30am on 18th February 1944, Royal Fusiller Lieutenant Eric Fletcher Waters was killed by the Germans in a ditch near the Italian town of Aprilla. Eric was fighting with comrades in Z Company which is part of the 8th Battalion force of the British Army. Roger Waters, who would go on to so-found Pink Floyd, was just a baby at the time and never got to see his father. Roger would make references to his late father in albums such as The Wall and The Final Cut. “It is 70 years to the day since my father died here and I have finally come to the...