Among war services which deserve fo be remembered, the visit of Gracie Fields to the British Army in France surely stands very high. It is not Jong since she underwent a serious operation, she is still to be reckoned fon the sick list, and she was on Ler way to Capri for a long convalescence. Nevertheless she broke her Journey to visit the Army and in tw" evenings she gave four concerts and sang 40 songs. Once she stopped and sang to some troops in the stre, Her fast visit was to a rather lonely detachment of 200. signal ters and Sappers, nearly all of them from her own native Lancashire. They were grousing because they had ret hear her when suddenly she on among them. It was then 11 o'clock and she had already given two long
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