REMEMBER the picture of the biker we featured a few weeks ago (above), well reader Val Cunningham wrote in to shed light on his identity: "What a shock you gave me at lunchtime when the Star came today I got to your page glanced at the photo and thought – what's dad doing in the paper? I looked properly and just stared – is it or isn't it and the more I stared I remember a photograph my mum had and decided it's very possible.
“The writing at the side of the photo was possible too – member of the Gerrard Family no but his name was Gerard: by this time he had probably met my mum who lived in Argyle Street, and he was a motorbike fanatic so much so that they married in June 1940 and he went to war for five years starting in Egypt, Palestine, Sicily and up Italy as a Despatch Rider in the 8th Army.
"The bike lasted a bit longer but business called. His name was Gerard Rigby as in gravestones, Knowsley Road.”
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