Remove page number from backside of custom title page

Question

In the following document, I am using \titleGM for a custom title page, from the titlepages collection. This results in a page number (in Roman numerals) on the backside of the title page. However, if I replace the custom \titleGM with \maketitle, then there is no page number on the backside.

Note that page numbering correctly restarts from i for the Table of Contents even with the custom title page.

How do I remove the page numbering from the backside of the custom title page?

\documentclass{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\input{titleGM.tex}
\usepackage{blindtext}
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37396/2113
% Just to have a long enough ToC to see its page numbers
\usepackage{forloop}
\newcounter{loopcntr}
\newcommand{\rpt}[2][1]{%
  \forloop{loopcntr}{0}{\value{loopcntr}<#1}{#2}%
}
\title{Retrocomputing with Clash}
\author{Gergő Érdi}
\date{}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\begin{titlingpage}
\titleGM
%% \maketitle
\end{titlingpage}
\tableofcontents
\mainmatter
\rpt[30]{\chapter{Foo}\Blindtext}
\backmatter
\end{document}

Simon Dispa · Accepted Answer · 2021-06-05T22:12:11.137

I suggest using this slightly modified version of titleGM

It will suppress a blank page before the title page and remove the page numbering up to the table of contents.

titleGM source from titlepages.pdf (page #53)

\documentclass[twoside]{memoir}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{blindtext}
% https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/37396/2113
% Just to have a long enough ToC to see its page numbers
\usepackage{forloop}
\newcounter{loopcntr}
\newcommand{\rpt}[2][1]{%
    \forloop{loopcntr}{0}{\value{loopcntr}<#1}{#2}%
}
\title{Retrocomputing with Clash}
\author{Gergő Érdi}
\date{}
\newcommand{\titleGM}{%
\pagestyle{empty}  % added <<<<<<<<<<<<
\newlength{\drop}
\setlength{\drop}{0.1\textheight}
\begingroup% Gentle Madness
    %   \vspace{\baselineskip} % commented <<<<<<<<<<<<
    \vfill
    \hbox{%
        \hspace{0.2\textwidth}%
        \rule{1pt}{\textheight}
        \hspace{0.05\textwidth}%
            \parbox[b]{0.75\textwidth}
                {\vbox{%
                    \vspace{\drop}
                    {\noindent\HUGE\bfseries Some\ [0.5\baselineskip]
                        Conundrums}\[2\baselineskip]
                    {\Large\itshape Puzzles for the Mind}\[4\baselineskip]
                    {\Large THE AUTHOR}\par
                    \vspace{0.5\textheight}
                    {\noindent The Publisher}\[\baselineskip]
                }% end of vbox
            }%   end of parbox
        }%    end of hbox
    \vfill
    \null

\endgroup
}
\begin{document}
\begin{titlingpage}
    \titleGM
    %% \maketitle
\end{titlingpage}

\frontmatter
\tableofcontents

\mainmatter

\rpt[30]{\chapter{Foo}\Blindtext}

\backmatter

Remove page number from backside of custom title page

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