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Few people realised how big and sustained was Gracie's war effort.
Many of her lengthy tours of entertainment in overseas theatres of war were unpublicised - where the British boys went, Gracie followed.
She was one of the first artistes to entertain the B.E.F. troops in France
(above)
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In 1941 Gracie came over from the U.S.A. to spend three months
touring camps
and factories in England. At her first camp concert in this country twin
brother privates of a Lancashire regiment presented her with the key to
their camp.
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