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This past Tuesday, 70 years to the day his father was killed at the Battle of Anzio, Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters honored Eric Fletcher Waters at a memorial ceremony in Italy.

“I have finally come to the end of a journey to discover what really happened to him,” Waters said at the site of a new marble monument in the town of Aprilia, south of Rome. “I feel an enormous attachment to my father today. I’m very happy to be here.”

The monument, which commemorates Eric Waters “and all the other fallen who have no known grave,” displays lyrics taken from Roger’s “Two Suns in the Sunset” from Floyd’s “The Final Cut” album: “Ashes and diamonds, foe and friend; we were all equal in the end.”

The younger Waters was 5-months-old when his father was killed Feb. 18, 1944. His body was never found.

Roger learned details of his death just recently, when WWII veteran Harry Schindler, 93, who also fought at Anzio, researched the battle and managed to recover a War Diary providing details.

Schindler also attended this week’s ceremony.

“Roger, I hope that you can go into calmer waters now and that this wall at least is down for you,” he said.

Read more about Roger Waters’s father and the battle that took his life.

Veteran Harry Shindler, who survived the Battle of Anzio and helped liberate Rome during World War II, has been appointed Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list.

Shindler was in the news last year for digging into government records and discovering details about the death of Eric Fletcher Waters, the father of Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, who died at Anzio when the younger Waters was an infant. (See “New documents reveal final day of Roger Water’s father“)

The battle was described in Roger’s “When the Tigers Broke Free,” an outtake from Floyd’s “The Wall” album, later to become part of “The Final Cut” when that album was reissued in 2004.

Shindler received the honor for helping find graves of British soldiers killed or listed as missing in action.

He moved to Italy in the 1980s and has campaigned for years to restore the voting rights of UK citizens living abroad.

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters has told Rolling Stone he’s completed a demo for a new album.

“I finished a demo of it last night,” he says. “It’s 55-minutes long. It’s songs and theater as well.

“I don’t want to give too much away, but it’s couched as a radio play,” he adds. “It has characters who speak to each other, and it’s a quest. It’s about an old man and a young child trying to figure out why they are killing the children.”

The album would be Waters’ first studio project of new material since 1992’s “Amused to Death.”

Read the Rolling Stone article

Documents recently unearthed reveal details about the final 24 hours of Eric Fletcher Waters, the father of Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters who died in Italy’s Battle of Anzio on Feb. 18, 1944.

The documents, from the National Archives in Kew, were discovered by World War II veteran Harry Shindler, 93, who started his research after learning of Roger’s recent trip to Italy to pay tribute to his father.

“I was very moved that he wanted to find out more about his father’s death and the circumstances of how he was killed,” Shindler tells the Daily Mail.” I don’t know who Pink Floyd are, my music stops at The Beatles.”

The remains of Eric Waters, a second lieutenant with Z Company of the Royal Fusiliers, were never recovered. But his name is on a memorial in Cassino, Italy, commemorating the fallen soldiers.

An entry in the War Diary made at 11:30 a.m. Feb. 18, 1944, reads: “Lt Waters killed and Lt Hill wounded, situation now critical. Message received over air that assistance would now be too late.”

The younger Waters wrote about the battle in “When the Tigers Broke Free” from the film “Pink Floyd The Wall,” and later a part of Pink Floyd’s “The Final Cut” album.

Read more about the battle at the Daily News website.