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2nd Lt. Eric Fletcher Waters

British Army 8th Btn. Royal Fusiliers

from:Great Bookham, Surrey

(d.18th Feb 1944)

Eric Waters was born in 1914 in Great Bookham, Surrey, the son of a coal miner and Labour Party activist. He was a schoolteacher, a devout Christian, and a Communist Party member. In the early years of the Second World War,Eric was a conscientious objector who drove an ambulance during the Blitz. He later changed his stance on pacifism, joined the Territorial Army and was commissioned into the 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers as a Second Lieutenant on 11th of September 1943. He was killed five months later on 18th February 1944 at Aprilia, during the Battle of Anzio and is commemorated at the Cassino War Cemetery.



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