Chapter 15: Researching Tyler, 1921Alec caved to his curiosity after lunch, and started his men on formal enquiries about Tyler. Grant humored him with another raised eyebrow. The War Office files were thin. A bare record of his dates of service—Mrs. Aitken had been right, he had been Motorcycle Despatch, with the Signals, for the duration. He’d bought a ‘cycle from his discharge depot for £22, and that had been the last the army had heard from him, in October 1919.
Alec put his coat on and told Grant he was going to see McGovern at the Pictorial Examiner. Grant snorted and continued to hold for the War Office to try to get more information out of the Signals.
The newspaper office was in full swing as Alec pushed through the door. A young woman with garish lipstick and a cigarette in a l
