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Veterans to ride "old faithful" bike across Europe in tribute to D-Day hero


A group of veterans will be riding a WW2 motorbike to retrace a veterans ride from Normandy to Berlin.
The team from Blackburn’s Veterans Living History Museum (VLHM) is organising ‘Operation Banham’ as a nod to D-Day and WW2 veteran, Lewis Banham.
Lewis Banham, 98, from Weir, rode a 500cc BSA M20 motorbike on his trip across European and the veterans from VLHM have bought the same bike for their ride across the continent.
As Lewis walked towards the bike, aided by his son Greg, he said: “Ahh Old Faithful - which was his nickname for the bike that he rode off the landing craft on Gold Beach before criss-crossing through Europe taking vital messages to the front-line troops. ....

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