Pink Floyd's Roger Waters pays tribute to father at war grave A solemn Waters said his visit to the cemetery was the last leg of a personal journey he had undertaken to honour both his father and grandfather and he was filming the visit. I've been making a journey through Europe to visit the grave of my grandfather who was killed in 1916 and my father who was killed at Anzio up the road here. So this is the end of the journey. The celebrated musician's father, Eric Fletcher Waters, was killed in the spring of 1944 during intense fighting after the famous Allied landings at Anzio, south of Rome. Waters, who is an avid Arsenal fan, broke into a smile when local fans gave him the scarf of the local Cassino football team. On September 3 1943, Allied forces invaded the Italian mainland and faced stiff resistance from German forces. Cassino witnessed some of the fiercest fighting of the Italian campaign in early 1944. More than 4,200 Commonwealth soldiers are buried or commemorated at Cassino War Cemetery and 289 of the graves are unidentified.