Waters also knew David Gilmour during these times, a popular bully from a different school. Even with all of this however, he hated his educational experience according to him, 'I hated every minute of it, the school's regime was an oppressive one, the bullies were bullied, the bullies that bullied the bullies were bullied, and the bullies that bullied the bullies that bullied the bullies were bullied'. Waters attended the Fletcher Memorial Junior School in Cambridge and then the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys (Later renamed Hills Road Six Form College, then back to Cambridgeshire High School for Boys, then back again) with Syd Barrett.Īt age 15, Waters was the chairman of the Cambridge Youth Campaign for Nuclear Armament and a keen sportsman and a highly regarded member of the high school's chess club. His ambulance was found on 18th February 1944, but the body of Eric Waters was never recovered.įollowing her husband's suspected death, Mary moved both her children to Cambridge and raised them there. In early 1944, however, he had a change of heart and drove his ambulance all the way from Surrey, Great Britain to Aprilia, Italy in an attempt to join the British army, however, he was using one of the first road maps produced by Tom Tom and ended up driving his ambulance into the English Channel. During the early years of World War II his father was an ambulance driver, and was strongly against the war. His father who was the son of a coal miner, Labour party activist and late night dancer, was a schoolteacher, a devout Christian, and a godless Communist. George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) the younger of two boys to Mary and Eric Waters in Surrey. For those without comedic tastes, the so-called experts at Wikipedia have an article about Roger Waters.
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